Re: [R] gmp coredump - where to report?

2019-08-17 Thread William Dunlap via R-help
I has trying to convert some raw values into a big number with the library gmp. However the library makes R crash. Two questions: 1. Should I report the problem and if yes, where can I report the problem? You can report the problem by calling bug.report(package="gmp") and filling in the

Re: [R] gmp coredump - where to report?

2019-08-16 Thread Jeff Newmiller
And for a different opinion... Packages that allow the user to trigger core dumps (regardless of how) should be reported and fixed. It is the responsibility of the R package author to put in input validation to avoid such errors. You can read the description file via the maintainer function or

Re: [R] gmp coredump - where to report?

2019-08-16 Thread Abby Spurdle
(excerpts only) > I has trying to convert some raw values into a big number with the > library gmp. > However the library makes R crash. Two questions: > 1. Should I report the problem and if yes, where can I report the problem? > 2. Is the source code for the R version of GMP somewhere on eg.

[R] gmp coredump - where to report?

2019-08-16 Thread Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen
Hi, I has trying to convert some raw values into a big number with the library gmp. However the library makes R crash. Two questions: 1. Should I report the problem and if yes, where can I report the problem? 2. Is the source code for the R version of GMP somewhere on eg. github, so I can post