If the list would provide additional reports I'd appreciate it. I replicated the effect this morning on another Windows XP machine... R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) i386-pc-mingw32
locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.10.1 ... and I replicated it using the current development build... R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-02-09 r51113) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base In additionally I've determined that when h.long = 150; both cat and write fail, but when h.long = 100 only the file write with cat fails. Please advise. Best, Russell ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.