Message-ID: <CAFDcVCTDivB8VxE3Oq+exsyjEc6pc_iEpnVCNu0Bf0YD6X+bQQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2011-12-29T14:49:26Z
From: Henrik Bengtsson
Subject: Crashing R with readline()
I get the following with R v2.14.1 patched on Windows 7:
% Rterm --vanilla --silent
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.1 Patched (2011-12-26 r58001)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
> readline(sprintf("%-*s:", 180, "A prompt"))
A prompt
:
[1] ""
> q("no")
Error: caught access violation - continue with care
It is a consistent behavior.
/Henrik