On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote: > FYI, > > via a bug report of one of my packages, I discovered that the > following cases will hang Rterm when using TAB completion: > > CASE #1: > Adding an empty default function for tail() causes Rterm on Windows to > hang if one press TAB at the prompt: > > % Rterm -vanilla >> tail.default <- function(...) {} >> [PRESS TAB] > Error in specialOpLocs(text) : > (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double' > > After this Rterm becomes completely unresponsive. The same error > message will show up with Rgui, but R remains responsive. > > > CASE #2: > While troubleshooting the above, I discovered that if one does: > >> debug(utils:::.guessTokenFromLine) >> [PRESS TAB] > > or > >> debug(utils:::.win32consoleCompletion) >> [PRESS TAB] > > then Rterm hangs too (not Rgui). > > This happens with R v2.13.0 patched (2011-05-30 r56020) and R v2.14.0 > devel (2011-05-30 r56020) on Windows.
This should now be fixed in both r-devel (for a few days now) and r-patched. -Deepayan ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel