[R] make check for R-1.6.2 on IBM AIX

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

Is this a vanilla installation, not using any BLAS routines?  If so, that
error code means that the svd was called with a negative number of columns
(&p in the call).  I don't see how that can happen without some memory
corruption.

The usual ideas apply: run that example on its own, then look at
traceback(), add debugging code etc ....

We have seen similar (but not the same) issues where a BLAS was used that 
contained (broken) parts of LAPACK.

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Laurent Gautier wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> The 'make check' step fails for the pacakge mva on IBM AIX.
> The tail of the Rout log file looks like:
> 
> > for(factors in 2:4) print(update(Harman23.FA, factors = factors))
> 
> Call:
> factanal(factors = factors, covmat = Harman23.cor)
> 
> Uniquenesses:
>         height       arm.span        forearm      lower.leg         weight 
>          0.170          0.107          0.166          0.199          0.089 
> bitro.diameter    chest.girth    chest.width 
>          0.364          0.416          0.537 
> 
> Loadings:
>                Factor1 Factor2
> height         0.865   0.287  
> arm.span       0.927   0.181  
> forearm        0.895   0.179  
> lower.leg      0.859   0.252  
> weight         0.233   0.925  
> bitro.diameter 0.194   0.774  
> chest.girth    0.134   0.752  
> chest.width    0.278   0.621  
> 
>                Factor1 Factor2
> SS loadings      3.335   2.617
> Proportion Var   0.417   0.327
> Cumulative Var   0.417   0.744
> 
> Test of the hypothesis that 2 factors are sufficient.
> The chi square statistic is 75.74 on 13 degrees of freedom.
> The p-value is 6.94e-11 
> 
> Call:
> factanal(factors = factors, covmat = Harman23.cor)
> 
> Uniquenesses:
>         height       arm.span        forearm      lower.leg         weight 
>          0.127          0.005          0.193          0.157          0.090 
> bitro.diameter    chest.girth    chest.width 
>          0.359          0.411          0.490 
> 
> Loadings:
>                Factor1 Factor2 Factor3
> height          0.886   0.267  -0.130 
> arm.span        0.937   0.195   0.280 
> forearm         0.874   0.188         
> lower.leg       0.877   0.230  -0.145 
> weight          0.242   0.916  -0.106 
> bitro.diameter  0.193   0.777         
> chest.girth     0.137   0.755         
> chest.width     0.261   0.646   0.159 
> 
>                Factor1 Factor2 Factor3
> SS loadings      3.379   2.628   0.162
> Proportion Var   0.422   0.329   0.020
> Cumulative Var   0.422   0.751   0.771
> 
> Test of the hypothesis that 3 factors are sufficient.
> The chi square statistic is 22.81 on 7 degrees of freedom.
> The p-value is 0.00184 
> Error in La.svd(B) : error code 3 from Lapack routine dgesdd
> Execution halted
> 
> 
> Any hint ?
> 
> 
> 
> Laurent
> 
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