My mistake, but also a bug.
I did not open a device and called strheight("X").
==> R crashed
...\rgui --vanilla
[...]
strwidth("X")
Error in strwidth("X") : plot.new has not been called yet
(OK.)
strheight("X")
R crashed. (Happens also on Solaris.) Regards, Uwe Ligges --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = Windows arch = x86 os = Win32 system = x86, Win32 status = major = 1 minor = 0.0 year = 2000 month = February day = 29 language = R Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381) Service Pack 6 Search Path: .GlobalEnv, Autoloads, package:base -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._