🛡️ Sentinel: [MEDIUM] Add input validation to prevent internal error leakage

[seonghobae]

• 🚨 Severity: MEDIUM
• 💡 Vulnerability: Unvalidated user arguments (conf.level, nested, adj) in exported functions allow invalid types to propagate, triggering unhandled errors deep within mathematical operations and control flow logic. This bypasses top-level stop(..., call. = FALSE) safeguards and leaks internal execution contexts and stack traces.
• 🎯 Impact: Information disclosure. Exposes internal code structure and execution state to users.
• 🔧 Fix: Added strict type and length validation at the very beginning of the exported functions icci() and vuongtest(), ensuring invalid inputs fail securely via stop(..., call. = FALSE).
• ✅ Verification: Run icci(glm1, glm2, conf.level="a") or vuongtest(glm1, glm2, nested="yes") and observe the secure, generic error message without a stack trace.

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Pull request overview

OpenCode cannot approve yet because required coverage evidence did not pass.

Review outcome

1. HIGH .github/workflows/opencode-review.yml:1 - Coverage evidence did not prove required test/docstring evidence

• Problem: The required coverage-evidence job result was failure, so OpenCode cannot establish approval sufficiency for this head.

• Root cause: Automated approval is only valid when the same-head coverage-evidence job proves supported repository test suites passed and configured docstring gates passed or were advisory, or reports not applicable because no supported source files or package manifests exist. Missing, failed, skipped, unavailable, or unsupported-tooling test evidence is a blocker.

• Fix: Install or configure the repository test/docstring evidence tooling when source files or package manifests exist, rerun the current-head coverage-evidence job, and approve only after it reports success with required evidence or explicit no-source not-applicable evidence.

• Regression test: Keep the approval branch checking needs.coverage-evidence.result == success before posting APPROVE, and publish REQUEST_CHANGES when coverage-evidence blocker states such as cancelled, skipped, failed, unsupported-tooling, or below-100 evidence are present.

• Result: REQUEST_CHANGES

• Reason: coverage-evidence result was failure, so required test/docstring evidence was not proven for current head 065aedfca2390849092d3f93375eabf401a1b0c6.

• Head SHA: 065aedfca2390849092d3f93375eabf401a1b0c6

• Workflow run: 30797777798

• Workflow attempt: 1

Coverage evidence

Coverage Decision

• Result: FAIL
• Test evidence: not proven passing
• Docstring evidence: not proven passing when configured
• Failure count: 1

Changed-File Evidence Map

flowchart LR
  PR["PR changed files"] --> Evidence["OpenCode bounded evidence"]
  Evidence --> S1["Changed file (3 files)"]
  S1 --> I1["repository behavior"]
  I1 --> R1["Review risk: Changed file (3 files)"]
  R1 --> V1["required checks"]

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OpenCode Review Overview

• Head SHA: 065aedfca2390849092d3f93375eabf401a1b0c6
• Workflow run: 30797777798
• Workflow attempt: 1
• Gate result: REQUEST_CHANGES (approval step)

Pull request overview

OpenCode cannot approve yet because required coverage evidence did not pass.

Review outcome

1. HIGH .github/workflows/opencode-review.yml:1 - Coverage evidence did not prove required test/docstring evidence

• Problem: The required coverage-evidence job result was failure, so OpenCode cannot establish approval sufficiency for this head.

• Root cause: Automated approval is only valid when the same-head coverage-evidence job proves supported repository test suites passed and configured docstring gates passed or were advisory, or reports not applicable because no supported source files or package manifests exist. Missing, failed, skipped, unavailable, or unsupported-tooling test evidence is a blocker.

• Fix: Install or configure the repository test/docstring evidence tooling when source files or package manifests exist, rerun the current-head coverage-evidence job, and approve only after it reports success with required evidence or explicit no-source not-applicable evidence.

• Regression test: Keep the approval branch checking needs.coverage-evidence.result == success before posting APPROVE, and publish REQUEST_CHANGES when coverage-evidence blocker states such as cancelled, skipped, failed, unsupported-tooling, or below-100 evidence are present.

• Result: REQUEST_CHANGES

• Reason: coverage-evidence result was failure, so required test/docstring evidence was not proven for current head 065aedfca2390849092d3f93375eabf401a1b0c6.

• Head SHA: 065aedfca2390849092d3f93375eabf401a1b0c6

• Workflow run: 30797777798

• Workflow attempt: 1

Coverage evidence

Coverage Decision

• Result: FAIL
• Test evidence: not proven passing
• Docstring evidence: not proven passing when configured
• Failure count: 1

Changed-File Evidence Map

flowchart LR
  PR["PR changed files"] --> Evidence["OpenCode bounded evidence"]
  Evidence --> S1["Changed file (3 files)"]
  S1 --> I1["repository behavior"]
  I1 --> R1["Review risk: Changed file (3 files)"]
  R1 --> V1["required checks"]

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[seonghobae]

This is now the single maintained input-validation path after duplicate #68 was closed. It is not merge-ready yet: the branch changes exported statistical APIs without source-level regression tests, NA_real_/NaN/Inf coverage for conf.level, factor/empty/multi-value coverage for adj, backward-compatibility assertions for valid calls, CHANGELOG/APA 7 doctoring, R CMD check, current-head coverage/docstring evidence, or independent review. Keep the validations, add realistic tests before implementation claims, and rerun every exact-head gate; predecessor evidence does not transfer.

[google-labs-jules]

This is now the single maintained input-validation path after duplicate #68 was closed. It is not merge-ready yet: the branch changes exported statistical APIs without source-level regression tests, NA_real_/NaN/Inf coverage for conf.level, factor/empty/multi-value coverage for adj, backward-compatibility assertions for valid calls, CHANGELOG/APA 7 doctoring, R CMD check, current-head coverage/docstring evidence, or independent review. Keep the validations, add realistic tests before implementation claims, and rerun every exact-head gate; predecessor evidence does not transfer.

Thank you for the review. I have added comprehensive regression tests to cover the input validations for icci() and vuongtest(), explicitly including tests for NA, NaN, Inf, multiple values, invalid factors, and other non-compliant inputs as requested. I've also re-run the tests locally using R CMD INSTALL . and testthat to verify the inputs are properly sanitized.