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Simple bug in lmer: reliably crashes R

3 messages · Nathaniel Smith, Douglas Bates

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There seems to be a minor input-validation bug in lme4 0.99875-8,
where fitting a model with (0 | ...) crashes R.

To reproduce:
Process R floating point exception at Sat Oct 13 01:26:25 2007

Obviously the workaround is "don't do that then", but it would
probably be good to fix at some point.

-- Nathaniel
1 day later
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I have just uploaded lme4_0.99875-9 to CRAN's incoming directory.
This version generates an error when trying to fit a model with terms
that reduce to (0|grp).

Thanks for the report.
On 10/13/07, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:20:17AM -0500, Douglas Bates wrote:
No problem, and thanks for the quick response.

It looks like -9 still has the problem with lmList being broken for
glm's that I reported last week:
  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mixed-models/2007q4/000374.html

-- Nathaniel