On 16/04/2020, at 8:38 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at R-project.org> wrote:
Carsten and Berend,
It means your CPU doesn't support the instructions used, so your Mac is likely older. Can you, please, post the output of
system_profiler SPHardwareDataType
Thanks,
Simon
On 16/04/2020, at 7:21 PM, carsten.dormann at biom.uni-freiburg.de wrote:
Can confirm problem:
dpois(mpfr(x, 120), 1000)
*** caught illegal operation ***
address 0x1116f7c42, cause 'illegal opcode'
Traceback:
1: .class1(object)
2: as(value, dataClass)
3: setDataPart(x, .Call(Math_mpfr, x, .Math.codes[[.Generic]]))
4: exp(-lambda)
5: exp(-lambda)
6: dpois(mpfr(x, 120), 1000)
Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace
Selection:
sessionInfo() # after restart
R version 4.0.0 alpha (2020-04-01 r78130)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.6
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
locale:
[1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.0
Carsten
On 16. Apr 2020, at 08:56, Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
If the pre-release binary of Rmpfr is intended for the R-4.0 beta then I am experiencing "illegal operations" with "illegal opcode" errors.
<sessionInfo>
R version 4.0.0 beta (2020-04-14 r78227)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
locale:
[1] en_IE.UTF-8/en_IE.UTF-8/en_IE.UTF-8/C/en_IE.UTF-8/en_IE.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.0
</sessionInfo>
A simple example session is
<(in+output)>
library(gmp,lib.loc=".");library(Rmpfr,lib.loc=".")
Attaching package: 'gmp'
The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
%*%, apply, crossprod, matrix, tcrossprod
C code of R package 'Rmpfr': GMP using 64 bits per limb
Attaching package: 'Rmpfr'
The following object is masked from 'package:gmp':
outer
The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
dbinom, dgamma, dnorm, dpois, pnorm
The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
cbind, pmax, pmin, rbind
x <- 1400+ 0:10
print(dpois(x, 1000), digits =18) ## standard R's double precision
[1] 1.46677334419659338e-33 1.04694742626454156e-33 7.46752800474106016e-34
[4] 5.32254312525935864e-34 3.79098513195210765e-34 2.69821005832831136e-34
[7] 1.91906832029070091e-34 1.36394336907638670e-34 9.68709779173582432e-35
[10] 6.87515812046484244e-35 4.87599866699657026e-35
dpois(mpfr(x, 120), 1000)## more accuracy for the same
*** caught illegal operation ***
address 0x10a6e1c42, cause 'illegal opcode'
Traceback:
1: .class1(object)
2: as(value, dataClass)
3: setDataPart(x, .Call(Math_mpfr, x, .Math.codes[[.Generic]]))
4: exp(-lambda)
5: exp(-lambda)
6: dpois(mpfr(x, 120), 1000)
Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace
</(in+output)
Other trials seem to experience similar issues.
regards
Berend