I am attempting to perform a pca on a data frame of dimension 5000x19, but when I execute pcapres<-prcomp(pres,center=TRUE) the following error message is returned: Error in La.svd(x, nu, nv, method) : error code 18 from Lapack routine dgesdd Where am I going wrong? I am running R-1.8.0 on Debian. Regards, Laura