R on Windows crashes when using certain characters in strings in data frames (PR#14125)

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:20:09 +0100 (CET) karl at huftis.org

The following commands trigger the crash for me:

n=1e5
k=10
x=sample(k,n,replace=TRUE)
y=sample(k,n,replace=TRUE)
xy=paste(x,y,sep=" ? ")
z=sample(n)
d=data.frame(xy,z)

Note: On the R Bug Tracking System Web site, the character causing the 
problem seems to be incorrectly displayed as a '.', though on the 
mailing list the correct character is used. The character should be the 
multiplication symbol, U+00D7, which looks similar to an 'x'. The 
character does exist in both ISO 8859-1 and Windows-1252.

Karl Ove Hufthammer