[R] prcomp help

[Al Piszcz]

I am pretty sure it is something to do with my local installation.
I have R running on 6 other systems with no proble.s

1] R --vanilla (same bevhavior, does not finish)
2] I will reinstall and report back shortly if there is still
    an issue.

Thank you.




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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