Thank you, Bjørn-Helge. A shorter version is plot(1:500, col = gl(2,250))
Interestingly, with much shorter vectors of length (n), the correct warning is produced (n times). And once that has happened, you can use longer vectors without any problem. As you said ``issued just after starting R'' seems quite relevant. When run in 'R -d gdb', the backtrace ("bt") seems to indicate that the problem is happening during the (C-level) warning() call. Martin ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel