The problem is a known one and solved in R 2.1.1-patched. On your OS the result is not as accurate as most, but the tolerance set was too tight so the test failure is not something to worry about. Please install R-patched instead, as it has many bug fixes in place.
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Courtney Thomas wrote:
Under FreeBSD 5.3, attempting to properly install R-2.1.1, I get the following response when I..... % make ;all finishes without error, then... % make check <ret> . . ---------------------------------------------- comparing d-p-q-r-tests.Rout to d-p-q-r-tests.Rout.save 1004c1004 < [1] mean relative difference 1.2848649e-08 [1] TRUE .....Error code 1 stop in ~R/R-2.1.1/tests ----------------------------------------------- I assume a computed value is out of bounds regarding a predetermined range of accuracy. Not being a statistician nor programmer, how might I fix this, please ? Appreciatively, Courtney
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