[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. > > Yes. The problem is of course that we do want a sprintf() format there for "Rplot%03d.pdf" et al. One option would be to escape "%" except when in (regexp) "%[0-9]*d", which seems nontrivial, but not impossible.
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