[Rd] illegal operation in debian (PR#9086)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 19 July 2006 at 12:48, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
| On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, agustin.perez at umh.es wrote:
| 
| > Full_Name: Agustin Perez
| > Version: 2.3.1
| > OS: Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic
| > Submission from: (NULL) (193.147.142.6)
| > 
| > 
| > First of all excuses for my bad use of english and thanks for read my problem.
| > 
| > Well when I do the following comand in R suddenly crashes and exit me for the
| > enviroment:
| > 
| > > a<-matrix(1:13500,450,30)
| > > a%*%t(a)
| > 
| >  *** caught illegal operation ***
| > address 0x2a9590086f, cause 'illegal operand'
| > 
| > Possible actions:
| > 1: abort (with core dump)
| > 2: normal R exit
| > 3: exit R without saving workspace
| > 4: exit R saving workspace
| > Selection: 3
| > 
| > 
| > I don't know what is the problem.
| 
| Quite likely using a BLAS inappropriate for the chip in use.

Yes, that is very likely -- the command just worked on my Debian
system. Please show us the result of 

$ dpkg -l | grep "blas\|lapack"| cut -c-79

Dirk

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