I think the following patch to src/main/bind.c fixes it up. If the length of an argument to [cr]bind is 0 then it wont't try to add any data from it to the output any more, just as is done with the other modes of data. It was getting the FPE from i%k when k==0.
Index: src/main/bind.c =================================================================== --- src/main/bind.c (revision 47617) +++ src/main/bind.c (working copy) @@ -1218,10 +1218,12 @@ case LISTSXP: PROTECT(u = coerceVector(u, mode)); k = LENGTH(u); - idx = (!isMatrix(u)) ? rows : k; - for (i = 0; i < idx; i++) - SET_VECTOR_ELT(result, n++, - duplicate(VECTOR_ELT(u, i % k))); + if (k>0) { + idx = (!isMatrix(u)) ? rows : k; + for (i = 0; i < idx; i++) + SET_VECTOR_ELT(result, n++, + duplicate(VECTOR_ELT(u, i % k))); + } UNPROTECT(1); break; default: Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software Inc - Spotfire Division wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of hadley wickham > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 7:18 AM > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: [Rd] Floating point excepting when cbind()ing a > matrix of grobs (orenvironments) with a 0-column matrix > > library(grid) > e <- rectGrob() > # OR: > # e <- environment() > > a <- matrix(list(e), ncol = 1, nrow = 2) > b <- matrix(ncol = 0, nrow = 2) > > cbind(a, b) > > cbind(a, b) > > This reliably crashes R for me. > > I realise this is a rather esoteric error condition, but it crops up > for me when creating matrices of grobs to be turned into a ggplot2 > plot. > > Hadley > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel