R devel - Oct 2004 - splinefun bug (PR#7290)

The following reliably bombs R, or at least rw2000 (windows XP):

test <- splinefun(vector(length=0), vector(length=0))
test(1)

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Kjetil Halvorsen.

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>>>>> "kjetil" == kjetil halvorsen
<kjetil@acelerate.com>
>>>>>     on Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:49:09 +0200 (CEST) writes:
    kjetil> The following reliably bombs R, or at least rw2000 (windows XP):

    kjetil> test <- splinefun(vector(length=0), vector(length=0))
    kjetil> test(1)

yes, that's a reproducible bug, thank you.

The embarassing thing is that we've fixed this bug already for 
approxfun() -- and some of us know that  spline* and approx*
have originally been very much in parallel...

BTW: No need to give the function a name: S can nicely work with
     anonymous functions. Consequently, you can get the same effect from

    splinefun(vector(length=0), vector(length=0)) (1)

or, even a bit more compactly:

    splinefun(1[0], 1[0]) (1)

Martin Maechler