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R-devel & ATLAS generates Dr. Watson on NT (was RE: [Rd] Look, Wa tson! La.svd & ATLAS)

2 messages · Liaw, Andy, Brian Ripley

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Prof. Bates & R-devel,

I've done more test with the following results:

I have two versions of ATLAS 3.2.1.  One was compiled on my old Thinkpad
600E (PII), the other was compiled on my new Thinkpad T22 (PIIISSE1).

I compiled R-devel dated 10/31, 11/01 and 11/04, linked against either of
the two ATLAS libs.  All gave Dr. Watson when given this code:

  La.svd(matrix(runif(1e5), 1e3, 1e2))

(There's no problem with smaller matrices, say 100x100.)

When compiled without ATLAS, the above code ran fine in all three R-devel's.

I tried R-1.3.1 with both ATLAS libs, and both ran fine.

Any ideas on what could be wrong?  Seems like R-devel doesn't like ATLAS, at
least on WinNT...

Regards,
Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Bates [mailto:bates@stat.wisc.edu]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 9:27 AM
To: Liaw, Andy
Cc: 'r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch'
Subject: Re: [Rd] Look, Watson! La.svd & ATLAS


"Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw@merck.com> writes:
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I was able to run those examples without ill effects on an R-1.4.0
(development) (2001-10-30) with Atlas 3.2.1 on a Linux system (Debian
testing)
[1] 0.04 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.00
[1] 1.15 0.01 2.39 0.00 0.00
[1] 0.33 0.00 0.63 0.00 0.00
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Liaw, Andy wrote:

            
I have no idea.  Quite possible though.  As we no longer have an active
Windows maintainer, it's down to you.  (Very little testing has been done
on Windows since 1.3.1 was released.)  You need to build a debug version
and look at the dump with gdb to start to debug the problem.

It's not realistic to expect R-devel to work on minority platforms all the
time.  These days it is unrealistic to expect much support on Windows
at all.