As soon as the R-Foundation posted that they’re inviting cleanup of old bugs, I knew it would be an opportunity to learn more about the way R works on the inside. I started looking through the list of open bugs for somewhere I could help out. I barely know anything about the actual C internals of the language (I’m hoping to learn) so I figured it would be best to start with some parts of the code I’m familiar with. I had an open bug report for the internals of glm which I extended with ...
