Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405050653040.9946-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2004-05-05T07:57:13Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Segfault from knn.cv in class package (PR#6856)
In-Reply-To: <20040505015338.402ABEDF3@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
This is user error.
R-bugs is not the appropriate place to report user error in a contributed
package -- please do read the R FAQ.
On Wed, 5 May 2004 jmacdon@med.umich.edu wrote:
> The function knn.cv in the class package doesn't have error checking to
> ensure that the length of the classlabel argument is equal to the number
> of rows in the test set. If the classlabel is short, the result is often
There is no *test* set in knn.cv, nor is there a `classlabel argument'.
There is
cl: factor of true classifications of training set
and that has been specified incorrectly.
> a segfault.
>
> > library(class)
> > dat <- matrix(rnorm(1000), nrow=10)
> > cl <- c(rep(1,5), rep(2,5))
> > cl2 <- c(rep(1,5), rep(2,4))
> > knn.cv(dat, cl)
> [1] 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2
> Levels: 1 2
> > knn.cv(dat, cl2) # May have to try more than once to get segfault.
>
> This also occurs on my linux box.
>
> Best,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> --please do not edit the information below--
>
> Version:
> platform = i386-pc-mingw32
> arch = i386
> os = mingw32
> system = i386, mingw32
> status =
> major = 1
> minor = 9.0
> year = 2004
> month = 04
> day = 12
> language = R
>
> Windows XP Professional (build 2600) Service Pack 1.0
>
> Search Path:
> .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics,
> package:utils, Autoloads, package:base
>
>
> James W. MacDonald
> Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
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