R help - Nov 2006 - Error Message saying .Call("R_lazyLoadDBfetch", etc.

Hi,

I got the following error message when running a function of mine doing
intensive computations:
Erreur dans .Call("R_lazyLoadDBfetch", key, file, compressed, hook,
PACKAGE = "base") :
         r?f?rence d'argument par d?faut r?cursive

I haven't found neither where the problem lies nor what could be recursive.

Besides, I wonder whether it might or not be a problem of memory size.

Could you please give me any suggestion on how to interpret this message?

Thanks in advance,

jacques

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Jacques VESLOT <jacques.veslot at good.ibl.fr> writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I got the following error message when running a function of mine doing
intensive computations:
> Erreur dans .Call("R_lazyLoadDBfetch", key, file, compressed,
hook, PACKAGE = "base") :
>          r?f?rence d'argument par d?faut r?cursive
> 
> I haven't found neither where the problem lies nor what could be
recursive.
> 
> Besides, I wonder whether it might or not be a problem of memory size.
> 
> Could you please give me any suggestion on how to interpret this message?
The prototypical situation is this
> f<-function(a=a)a
> f(2)
[1] 2
> f()
Error in f() : recursive default argument reference

The default for argument a ends up needing the value of a. This can
also happens more indirectly when multiple arguments refer to
eachother. 

BTW: Is that error message proper French? Should it not be

r?f?rence r?cursive d'argument par d?faut 

or so.

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