[R] bus error macosx/off-topic

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Ingmar Visser wrote:

> On 5/13/04 12:46 PM, "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 13 May 2004, Ingmar Visser wrote:
> > 
> >> Dear Prof Ripley,
> >> Thanks for your answer.
> >> 
> >> On 5/12/04 2:52 PM, "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> These normally occur (at that point) from having written off one end of an
> >>> array. (If you are using .C/.Fortran, they try to copy back the
> >>> arguments.) Compiling with bounds checking turned on can help, at least
> >>> with Fortran.
> >> 
> >> Can I invoke compile options if/when I use R cmd install etc. to install
> >> packages? 
> > 
> > By using a Makevars file: see Writing R Extensions.
> 
> 
> I got Makevars to work with bounds checking for the fortran files. Does
> something similar exist for C/C++ code?

Depends on your compiler, which you have not mentioned and if on MacOS X 
(sic) I would not know about.

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