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a bug? (PR#968)

2 messages · michael@stat.duke.edu, Peter Dalgaard

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michael@stat.duke.edu
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Dear R,

I would like to report what I think is a bug in R.  I am running R
within emacs on a Digital AlphaStation.  See the version information
at the end of my R session for details.  I also attach a copy of the
file that is read in the `read.table' command.

Here's my R session, with a few comments added in to show what I
think is wrong:

#############################################################################
R : Copyright 2000, The R Development Core Team
Version 1.0.1  (April 14, 2000)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type	"?license" or "?licence" for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type	"?contributors" for a list.

Type	"demo()" for some demos, "help()" for on-line help, or
    	"help.start()" for a HTML browser interface to help.
Type	"q()" to quit R.

[Previously saved workspace restored]
$SEEDID
[1] "numeric"

$LINEAGE
[1] "factor"

$POP
[1] "factor"

$REGION
[1] "factor"

$CARBON
[1] "NULL"                        <-- WRONG

$DAY
[1] "numeric"

$GERM
NULL                              <-- WRONG
[1] 3432
[1] 29
[1] 7
[1] 4
[1] 0                             <-- WRONG
[1] 3
[1] 2
_               
platform alpha-dec-osf4.0
arch     alpha           
os       osf4.0          
system   alpha, osf4.0   
status                   
major    1               
minor    0.1             
year     2000            
month    April           
day      14              
language R               
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For comparison, here's the same thing done in S-Plus
##############################################################################
License Warning : 00 license expires Tue Jul 31 23:59:59 2001
S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1996 MathSoft, Inc.
S : Copyright AT&T.
Version 3.4 Release 1 for DEC alpha, Digital UNIX (OSF/1) V3.2 : 1996 
Working data will be in /lake/local/michael/.Data
SEEDID  LINEAGE      POP   REGION    CARBON       DAY      GERM 
 "numeric" "factor" "factor" "factor" "numeric" "numeric" "numeric"
[1] 3432
[1] 29
[1] 7
[1] 4
[1] 4
[1] 3
[1] 2
##############################################################################
Peter Dalgaard
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michael@stat.duke.edu writes:
You could very well be tickling a memory bug, but that version of R is
more than a year out of date and things have changed considerably in
the meantime. Could you please retry with a more recent version? 

And, BTW, large attachments are quite difficult to extract once they
have been mangled by the mailing list and bug filing software, so only
use them as a last resort. It's much preferable if you put it up
separately on your homepage or FTP site.