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Full_Name: Hugh C. Pumphrey Version: 1.4.1 OS: Linux (Debian Woody) Submission from: (NULL) (129.215.133.170) The function readChar() appears to have some type of problem with memory allocation. I don't know if "memory leak" is the correct term but if one uses readChar() many times, the R binary grows in size...

...el displays." If this is going to happen in the foreseeable future, then it will certainly be a better solution than mine. Could anyone fill me in on what is happening on this front? many thanks, Hugh ============S=u=p=p=o=r=t===D=e=b=i=a=n===http://www.debian.org============ Dr. Hugh C. Pumphrey | Tel. 0131-650-6026,Fax:0131-650-5780 Institute for Meteorology | Replace 0131 with +44-131 if outside UK The University of Edinburgh | Email hcp@met.ed.ac.uk EDINBURGH EH9 3JZ, Scotland | URL: http://www.met.ed.ac.uk/~hcp ============S=u=p=p=o=r=t==g=9=5==http://g95.s...

...e not to use solaris's cheesy /bin/sh . No success, so now I am at a loss. The problem occurs with R-1.5.0 but not with R-1.4.1 (and of course there is no problem on my Linux box!) Any ideas welcome. Hugh ============S=u=p=p=o=r=t===D=e=b=i=a=n===http://www.debian.org============ Dr. Hugh C. Pumphrey | Tel. 0131-650-6026,Fax:0131-650-5780 Institute for Meteorology | Replace 0131 with +44-131 if outside UK The University of Edinburgh | Email hcp@met.ed.ac.uk EDINBURGH EH9 3JZ, Scotland | URL: http://www.met.ed.ac.uk/~hcp ============S=u=p=p=o=r=t==g=9=5==http://g95.s...

Dear all, I'm trying to fix a subtle bug in the hdf5 package. This package provides an interfaces to the HDF5 library and hence allows one to load data into R from files in the HDF5 format. The bug appeared during a period in which R changed but the package did not. I include below both the R and C code, stripped of everything except what is needed to show the bug. What is supposed to

...e not to use solaris's cheesy /bin/sh . No success, so now I am at a loss. The problem occurs with R-1.5.0 but not with R-1.4.1 (and of course there is no problem on my Linux box!) Any ideas welcome. Hugh ============S=u=p=p=o=r=t===D=e=b=i=a=n===http://www.debian.org============ Dr. Hugh C. Pumphrey | Tel. 0131-650-6026,Fax:0131-650-5780 Institute for Meteorology | Replace 0131 with +44-131 if outside UK The University of Edinburgh | Email hcp at met.ed.ac.uk EDINBURGH EH9 3JZ, Scotland | URL: http://www.met.ed.ac.uk/~hcp ============S=u=p=p=o=r=t==g=9=5==http://g9...