[R] bus error macosx/off-topic

[Ingmar Visser]

On 5/17/04 12:57 PM, "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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.

I use the gcc compilers that are invoked by using R CMD INSTALL, ie g++ and
g77 respectively for c++ and fortran code.

ingmar visser