[R] prcomp help

[Al Piszcz]

Thanks.
This is now OBE, I downloaded the R-Patched version
from 30 May, added the VR bundle and am all set for now.



On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:01:08 +0100 (BST)
> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To: Al Piszcz <apiszcz at solarrain.com>
> Cc: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>, r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] prcomp help
> 
> That's because R-devel and R-patched have a workaround for a bug in the
> latest gcc: see the NEWS file.
>
> On Sun, 30 May 2004, Al Piszcz wrote:
>
>>
>> I downloaded and built the development version
>> of R dated 30 May. make check, and prcomp
>> were successful.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 30 May 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 22:01:58 +0200
>>> From: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
>>> To: Al Piszcz <apiszcz at solarrain.com>
>>> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>> Subject: Re: [R] prcomp help
>>>
>>> Al Piszcz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Slackware 9.1, R 1.9.0, 2.54GHZ P4, 2GB RAM
>>>>
>>>> example(prcomp) never finishes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> example(prcomp)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> prcomp> data(USArrests)
>>>>
>>>> prcomp> prcomp(USArrests)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ====
>>>>
>>>> The following test also appears to hang.
>>>>
>>>>> a<-matrix(rnorm(100,mean=32,sd=31),10,10)
>>>>> b<-prcomp(a)
>>>
>>> Works on Windows and several other OSs.
>>>
>>> Do you have a local copy of prcomp() (which is different from the original
>>> one)?
>>>
>>> What happens if you start R with --vanilla and try again?
>>>
>>> What happened after
>>>  make check
>>> during your R installation? make check should have reported an error here (or
>>> hang itself)....
>>>
>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ====
>>>>
>>>> What is the recommended debug approach?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
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