[Rd] eigen(symmetric=TRUE) for complex matrices

[Davor Cubranic]

On 13-06-18 12:57 AM, peter dalgaard wrote:
>> Coercing A to a complex matrix should make no difference, but makes
>> >eigen() return the wrong answer:
>> >
>>> >>min(eigen(A+0i,T,T)$values)
>> >[1] -0.359347
>>> >>
>> >
>> >This is very, very wrong.
> Yep. I see this also on 10.6/7 (Snow Leopard, Lion)  and 3.0.x, but NOT with a MacPorts build of 2.15.3 that I had lying around.
>
> So this sits somewhere between Mac builds, R versions, and possibly LAPACK issues. Can anyone reproduce on non-Mac?
>

It doesn't happen with the CRAN binary of 2.15.3 built for Ubuntu Precise.

Davor