In gsubfn I replace matches with strings that represent calls to a function
and then perform paste(eval(parse(text= ...)), collapse = "") on the result.
One user of gsubfn is using it with very long strings (over 20,000 characters)
and the parse is giving an input buffer overflow. Here is an
artif
No one answered this question but to answer my own question I did notice
that since I posted this, there have been changes to parse.Rd in the
development version of R:
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/base/man/parse.Rd
indicating:
"a limit of 8192 bytes on the size of strings w