[Rd] R crashes using the em function of package mclust (PR#7719)

[becker at kfs.oeaw.ac.at]

Duncan Murdoch schrieb:

>On Mon,  7 Mar 2005 09:35:39 +0100 (CET), becker at kfs.oeaw.ac.at wrote
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>>Hi,
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>>I got the same problem like
>>http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/04/11/1204.html
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>>R crashes when I use the em function from the mclust package on 
>>univariate data and on a special case on bivariate data (when the matrix 
>>is not provided as written in the manual).
>>It seems as if the problem is the format of the data to be analyzed.
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>>Operating System: Windows XP (SP2)
>>R version: R-2.0.1
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>>The following example causes a crash of R:
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>># univariate example
>>require(mclust)
>>X <- c(rnorm(100, mean=1), rnorm(100, mean=5))
>># I also tried: X <- as.matrix(c(rnorm(100, mean=1), rnorm(100, mean=5)))
>>Xmap <- cbind(c(rep(1, 100), rep(0, 100)), c(rep(0, 100), rep(1, 100)))
>>Xm <- mstep(modelName="V", data=X, z=Xmap)
>># CRASH:
>>em(modelName=Xm$modelName, data=X, mu=Xm$mu, sigmasq=Xm$sigmasq, pro=Xm$pro)
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>Which version of mclust?  I just installed  2.1-8  and ran your code
>in R-2.0.1 with no problem.
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I used 2.1-6. As you say 2.1-8 runs with no problem.
Sorry, my fault.

>In any case, this looks more like an mclust problem than an R problem;
>if you're using the current version, you should follow up with the
>maintainer,   Ron Wehrens <R.Wehrens at science.ru.nl>.
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>Duncan Murdoch
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