terra::intersect crashes R if object contains POSIXct

[DaveDixon]

R version 4.3.1
terra version 1.7.46

If a SpatVector contains a POSIXct field, terra::intersect crashes R with a segmentation fault.

Code to reproduce:

library(terra)

road_mtx <- cbind(
  rep(1, 5),
  rep(1,5),
  c(612999.4, 612775.8, 612521.5, 612507.6, 612511.6),
  c(3598976, 3599332, 3599748, 3599785, 3599817),
  rep(0,5))

utm_crs <- crs("+proj=utm +zone=13 +north +ellps=GRS80 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs")
colnames(road_mtx) <- c("geom", "part", "x", "y", "hole")
sample_road <- vect(road_mtx, "polygons", crs = crs(utm_crs))

point_frame <- data.frame(
  date = as.POSIXct("2020-03-01"),
  fatalities = 1,
  people = 1,
  latitude = 3682990,
  longitude = 548047.3
)
sample_point <- vect(point_frame, geom = c("longitude", "latitude"), utm_crs)

xx <- intersect(sample_road, sample_point)

[DaveDixon]

Also fails if the field is Date. Workaround is to convert the date to character, e.g. as.character(date_field)

[rhijmans]

Thank you very much for reporting this. Fixed.

[DaveDixon]

Thank you!