FW: [Rd] eigen() error: R Version 1.6.1 on Mac OS X (PR#2550)

[Daniel E. Weeks]

Actually, I only get the problem if I use R Version 1.6.2 as automatically
installed by 'fink'.  If I download the source directly myself for Version
1.6.2 from CRAN and compile it, then I get the proper eigenvalues.  Seems
strange to me - I thought that the source code in the fink repository should
be identical to that at CRAN?

-- Dan --

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From: Daniel E. Weeks <dweeks at watson.hgen.pitt.edu>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:09:48 -0500
To: Stefano Iacus <jago at mclink.it>
Cc: <R-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: [Rd] eigen() error: R Version 1.6.1 on Mac OS X (PR#2550)

Dear Stefano,

Yes, I have updated to R Version 1.6.2  (2003-01-10), running it in a
Terminal window under Darwin Kernel Version 6.4.

And, while La.eigen() appears to work fine, I still have the same problem
with eigen():

> x
     X1    X2    X3    X4    X5
1 3.240 2.592 2.592 2.592 2.592
2 2.592 3.240 2.592 2.592 2.592
3 2.592 2.592 3.240 2.592 2.592
4 2.592 2.592 2.592 3.240 2.592
5 2.592 2.592 2.592 2.592 3.240
> La.eigen(x)$values
[1] 13.608  0.648  0.648  0.648  0.648
> eigen(x)$values
[1] 13.123930  0.648000  0.648000  0.648000 -1.732930

I was hoping that updating to Version 1.6.2 would make my bug go away.

But if you can not reproduce this bug, then what is it about my system that
is different from yours?

Thank you,
  -- Dan --

On 2/14/03 4:37 PM, Stefano Iacus at jago at mclink.it wrote:

> Under Darwin R 1.6.2 and R-1.6.1 I get
> 
>> sg
>      [,1]  [,2]  [,3]  [,4]  [,5]
> [1,] 3.240 2.592 2.592 2.592 2.592
> [2,] 2.592 3.240 2.592 2.592 2.592
> [3,] 2.592 2.592 3.240 2.592 2.592
> [4,] 2.592 2.592 2.592 3.240 2.592
> [5,] 2.592 2.592 2.592 2.592 3.240
>> eigen(sg)$values
> [1] 13.608  0.648  0.648  0.648  0.648
> 
> as well as under Carbon R 1.6.1 and 1.6.2
> 
> I cannot reproduce your behaviour.
> 
> stefano
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Venerdì, feb 14, 2003, at 21:37 Europe/Rome,
> dweeks at watson.hgen.pitt.edu wrote:
> 
>> Consider this matrix:
>> 
>>> sg
>>      X1    X2    X3    X4    X5
>> 1 3.240 2.592 2.592 2.592 2.592
>> 2 2.592 3.240 2.592 2.592 2.592
>> 3 2.592 2.592 3.240 2.592 2.592
>> 4 2.592 2.592 2.592 3.240 2.592
>> 5 2.592 2.592 2.592 2.592 3.240
>> 
>> If I compute the eigenvalues of the 'sg' matrix using R Version 1.5.0
>> (2002-04-29) under Linux (or using Version 1.4.0  (2001-12-19) under
>> Solaris), I obtain:
>> 
>>> eigen(sg)
>> $values
>> [1] 13.608  0.648  0.648  0.648  0.648
>> 
>> I also obtain the same eigenvalues under R Version 1.5.1  (2002-06-17)
>> under
>> Mac OS X 10.2.3.
>> 
>> However, if I compute the eigenvalues of the 'sg' matrix using R
>> Version
>> 1.6.1  (2002-11-01) under Mac OS X 10.2.3, I obtain a different answer:
>> 
>>> eigen(sg)
>> $values
>> [1] 13.123930  0.648000  0.648000  0.648000 -1.732930
>>> det(sg)
>> [1] 2.399354
>>> det(sg,method="eigenvalues")
>> [1] -7.312317
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>  -- Dan --
>> 
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