Hello.
I seem to be having the same problem that Paul had in the thread titled "[Rd] R 2.15.2 make check failure on 32-bit --with-blas="-lgoto2"" from October of last year <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-October/065103.html> Unfortunately, that thread ended without an answer to his last question.
Briefly, I am trying to compile an Rblas for Windows NT 32bit using OpenBlas (successor to GotoBlas) (Nehalem - corei7), and the compiled version passes all tests except for the "splines-Ex" test in the exact same place that Paul had issues:
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stopifnot(identical(ns(x), ns(x, df = 1)),
+ identical(ns(x, df = 2), ns(x, df = 2, knots = NULL)), # not true till 2.15.2
+ !is.null(kk <- attr(ns(x), "knots")), # not true till 1.5.1
+ length(kk) == 0)
Error: identical(ns(x, df = 2), ns(x, df = 2, knots = NULL)) is not TRUE
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Yet, opening up R and running the actual code shows that the error is transient:
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[1] FALSE
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This is the only error I have on the 32-bit version, I believe (trying to build a blas for 64-bit on SandyBridge is a completely different kettle of fish that is causing me to pull out what little hair I have left), and if it can be solved that would be great.
Thank you,
Avraham