abrupt end to R

On Thu, 15 May 2003 00:27:26 +0200, you wrote:

Dear All,

I haven't seen any further comments about the problem that John Marsland

first noted and that I also have:

library(DBI)
library(RMySQL)

Warning message:
DLL attempted to change FPU control word from 8001f to 9001f

It's a bad idea to ignore warnings!  This says that there's a problem

In general, I agree ...of course.  However, I have a similar experience even
without warnings:

 library(DBI)
library(RMySQL)
 handle<-dbDriver("MySQL")
handle

<MySQLDriver:(958)>

 con<-dbConnect(handle, dbname="xxxx",  host="tango", user="aa")

Segmentation fault

The actual dbname has been replaced by "xxxx", but it does not matter
what I write there; the outcome is the same.  Also, changing the host="tango"
to host="localhost" or to the full computer name makes no difference. 

The environment is as follows:         _    
            
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686             
os       linux-gnu        
system   i686, linux-gnu  
status                    
major    1                
minor    6.1              
year     2002             
month    11               
day      01               
language R         

DBI version 0.1-4
RMySQL version 0.5-0

[tango:aa:~/SW] mysql --version
mysql  Ver 11.16 Distrib 3.23.49, for pc-linux-gnu (i686)

The fanny thing is that my students can connect to my computer and use 
the database from the computer lab (with R 1.6.1 for Windows) without problems!

Regards,

Adelchi Azzalini

Adelchi Azzalini  <azzalini at stat.unipd.it>
Dipart.Scienze Statistiche, Universit? di Padova, Italia
http://azzalini.stat.unipd.it/