Hi, all: There are two versions of R installed on our Linux cluster: 1.6.2 and 1.7.0 and both of them have problems with the MASS library. For the R 1.6.2, whenever I load MASS library by typing library(MASS), there is a "segmentation fault" and it automatically exit R. For the R 1.7.0, for some reasons, there is no MASS library (there are also other libraries came with the R 1.7.0) are missing. Since I know the MASS library should be part of the R 1.7 distribution package, I went to talk to the system administrator who installed R 1.7. He told me that he didn't do anything special during the installation and he's also puzzled how this would happen. Help........... ...Tao
segmentation fault when loading MASS library
2 messages · Tao Shi, Brian Ripley
On Sun, 25 May 2003, Tao Shi wrote:
Hi, all: There are two versions of R installed on our Linux cluster: 1.6.2 and 1.7.0 and both of them have problems with the MASS library. For the R 1.6.2, whenever I load MASS library by typing library(MASS), there is a "segmentation fault" and it automatically exit R.
Has this just started, or has it been happening for 5 months or so since 1.6.2 came out?
For the R 1.7.0, for some reasons, there is no MASS library (there are also other libraries came with the R 1.7.0) are missing. Since I know the MASS library should be part of the R 1.7 distribution package, I went to talk to the system administrator who installed R 1.7. He told me that he didn't do anything special during the installation and he's also puzzled how this would happen. Help...........
What do you expect *us* to do? This does work on many, many other Linux systems. Have you tried building and installing R yourself? Or getting the current VR bundle sources from CRAN and installing them yourself? Or (depending on the Linux version) installing an RPM from CRAN?
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595