[Rd] Probable Numeric Bugs in svd function (PR#8781)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is unreadable, but getting as far as the first couple of lines it 
seems to be unreproducible (what are Sp5 and Region?).

You have also not told us the version of R, platform, and crucial details 
such as what BLAS was used.

Can you please use the web interface to R-bugs to add (use this PR in the 
subject line) a complete, readable and reproducible example?


On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Mehdi.Kheloufi-Trabaud at moodys.com wrote:

> Hello,=0D
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> I just noticed that the "svd" function does not work properly for some=0D
> sparse matrices.=0D
> When I replace the 0 by very small noises (let's say 10^-16), it then=0D
> works.=0D
> The test I've performed is to compared the singular values to the eigen=0D
> values (as I work with squarred matrices).=0D
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> Here is the code (I may be wrong!):=0D
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> usHigh<-(Sp5>=3D300 & Region=3D=3D1)=0D
> usLow<-(Sp5<300 & Region=3D=3D1)=0D
> euHigh<-(Sp5>=3D200 & Region=3D=3D2)=0D
> euLow<-(Sp5<200 & Region=3D=3D2)=0D
> sigmas<-c(13.71,162.71,8.78,103.83,5.29,77.08,3.42,41.04)=0D
> temp1<-sigmas[1]*usLow+sigmas[2]*usHigh+sigmas[5]*euLow+sigmas[6]*euHigh=0D
> temp10<-sigmas[3]*usLow+sigmas[4]*usHigh+sigmas[7]*euLow+sigmas[8]*euHig=0D
> h=0D
> CorrEU<-0.89=0D
> CorrUS<-0.82=0D
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> CorrR<-matrix(0,2*SN.nb,2*SN.nb)=0D
> diag(CorrR)<-c(temp1^2,temp10^2)=0D
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> temp<-ifelse(Region=3D=3D1,CorrUS,CorrEU)=0D
> tempMat<-matrix(0,SN.nb,SN.nb)=0D
> diag(tempMat)<-temp*temp1*temp10=0D
> CorrR[(SN.nb+1):(2*SN.nb),1:SN.nb]<-tempMat=0D
> CorrR[1:SN.nb,(SN.nb+1):(2*SN.nb)]<-tempMat=0D
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> CorrR is positive definite but "svd" returns negative singular values!=0D
> When replacing 0s by very week noises, the error disppears.=0D
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> Hope I'm not saying stupid things.=0D
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> Rgds,=0D
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> Mehdi=0D
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