[Rd] Creating a long list triggers billions of messages

2025-01-20 Thread Hugh Parsonage
Reprex (not recommended in an interactive session as it is difficult to kill): x <- vector("list", 2^31) which triggers (presumably) billions of error messages like Error: long vectors are not supported yet ../include/Rinlinedfuns.h I believe the error arises from checking each element of the lis

[Rd] Development version of R fails a regression test

2025-01-20 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, I have daily scripts running to install the patched version of the current R version and the development version of R on my linux box (Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS). The last development version that was successfully compiled and installed on my machine is "R Under development (unstable) (2024-1