On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Richard Cotton > Version: 2.6.1 > OS: Windows XP (32bit) > Submission from: (NULL) (193.119.236.82) > > > Using %s in a filename when opening a device causes R to crash, e.g., > > pdf("foo%s.pdf") > win.metafile("foo%s.wmf") > postscript("foo%s.ps")
Do you have a workaround for this? Since that is done at C level, we can't easily trap this (especially on Windows), and the list of possible errors that might cause a crash is rather long. It has been considered as a vulnerability, but there seems no simple solution. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel