Both are contributed packages. The R-bugs repository is for bugs in R, not for contributed packages, as clearly stated in the R FAQ. Finally, check carefully whether the bug is with R, or a contributed package. Bug reports on contributed packages should be sent first to the package maintainer, and only submitted to the R-bugs repository by package maintainers, mentioning the package in the subject line. Please contact the maintainers. (It looks to me as if the problem is in SparseM, so you could try loading it first.)
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, dpleydel at univ-fcomte.fr wrote:
Full_Name: David Pleydell Version: 2.2.1 OS: Debian Etch Submission from: (NULL) (193.55.70.206) There appears to be a conflict between the chol functions from the Matrix and the SparseM packages. chol() can only be applied to a matrix of class dspMatrix if SparseM is not in the path. with gratitude David
library(Matrix) sm <- as(as(Matrix(diag(5) + 1), "dsyMatrix"), "dspMatrix") chol(sm)
5 x 5 Matrix of class "pCholesky"
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,] 1.4142136 0.7071068 0.7071068 0.7071068 0.7071068
[2,] . 1.2247449 0.4082483 0.4082483 0.4082483
[3,] . . 1.1547005 0.2886751 0.2886751
[4,] . . . 1.1180340 0.2236068
[5,] . . . . 1.0954451
library(SparseM)
[1] "SparseM library loaded"
chol(sm)
Error in chol(sm) : no applicable method for "chol"
detach("package:SparseM")
chol(sm)
5 x 5 Matrix of class "pCholesky"
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,] 1.4142136 0.7071068 0.7071068 0.7071068 0.7071068
[2,] . 1.2247449 0.4082483 0.4082483 0.4082483
[3,] . . 1.1547005 0.2886751 0.2886751
[4,] . . . 1.1180340 0.2236068
[5,] . . . . 1.0954451
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