[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I get strange results when I try to format() an NA character string. > > >> x <- 'sometext' >> x[1] <- NA >> format(NA, width=32) # displays sensibly, right-justified >> format(x,width=32) # displays sensibly, left-justified >> format(x,width=33) # displays "" >> format(x,width=36) # R exits abnormally with code 5 >> > > This happens on Linux too, given slightly larger widths:
R version 2.5.0 RC (2007-04-17 r41210) .... > x <- as.character(NA) > format(x,width=64) Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. Rstrlen (s=0x20000009, quote=0) at ../../../R/src/main/printutils.c:374 374 return Rstrwid(CHAR(s), LENGTH(s), quote); >> version >> > platform i386-pc-mingw32 > arch i386 > os mingw32 > system i386, mingw32 > status > major 2 > minor 4.1 > year 2006 > month 12 > day 18 > svn rev 40228 > language R > version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18) > > I'm running Windows XP. > > Damon. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel