> On Sunday, June 20, 2021, 9:29:28 PM EDT, brodie gaslam via R-devel
> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, June 20, 2021, 6:21:22 PM EDT, Michael Chirico
>> wrote:
>>
>> The max width of a string is .Machine$integer.max-1:
>
> I think the max width is .Machine$integer.max. What happened below is a
> bug d
> On Sunday, June 20, 2021, 6:21:22 PM EDT, Michael Chirico
> wrote:
>
> Currently, substring defaults to last=100L, which strongly
> suggests the intent is to default to "nchar(x)" without having to
> compute/allocate that up front.
>
> Unfortunately, this default makes no sense for "very
Currently, substring defaults to last=100L, which strongly
suggests the intent is to default to "nchar(x)" without having to
compute/allocate that up front.
Unfortunately, this default makes no sense for "very large" strings
which may exceed 100L in "width".
The max width of a string is .
