> I think this is a bug in the MacOS X runtime. I've checked the C99 > standard, and can see no limits on the precision that you should be able > to specify to printf.
That seems quite possible - it's interesting that increasing the number of digits (ie 1e7 vs 1e6) doesn't crash, but takes up about 1.2 gig of ram. Hadley ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel