[Rd] Bug report -- 1.0.1, HP-UX (PR#532)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 3 May 2000 russell-lenth@uiowa.edu wrote:

> Dear R folks,
> 
> Additional problem... bug.report() failed, so am sending it from another
> mailer.  The file it generated is appended.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Russ
> -- 
> Russell V. Lenth -- Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science
> The University of Iowa -- Iowa City, IA 52242  USA
> Tel (319)335-0814 -- FAX (319)335-3017
> mailto:Russell-Lenth@uiowa.edu - http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~rlenth/
> 
> 
> ===== R.bug.report =============================================
> Hello,
> 
> We're experiencing problems with R 1.0.1 on the HP-UX system.
> The most serious one is that the random-number generators don't work:
> 
>         R> runif(100)
>         Error in runif(100) : .Random.seed[0] is not a valid Normal type
> 
>         R> .Random.seed
>         [1] 18851  3338  2439
> 
> Is this a subscripting error?  Strange because building it on linux
> works just fine.

I think you've got a (very) old workspace being loaded there. Try starting
with R --vanilla to cross-check.


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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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