[R] RGui crashes on wle call

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Chris Bergstresser wrote:

> Hi all --
>
>    I'm seeing the following commands reliably produce a crash in RGui,
> version 2.0.1, for both my home and office machine:
>
> > rm(list = ls(all = TRUE));
> > load("dataset.R");
> > library("wle");
> > data.wle = wle.lm(abortion ~ year * lib.con + age + gender +
> + urbanism + census + income + church.att + children + educ +
> + religion.imp, data = data.set);
>
>    dataset.R is moderately sized (about 200k compressed), and the
> command works just fine with "lm" rather than "wle.lm".  Since I'm not
> sure where the bug lies -- in wle, in R, or in RGui -- I'm not sure
> where I should report this, or if it's already been reported.
>    What should I do?

There is good advice in the posting guide.  Following that

1) Re-do the tests in the current version of R, preferably a beta of 
2.1.1.

2) Read the rw-FAQ, do the debugging reported there (with Dr MinGW or gdb) 
and find where it is crashing.  (This is very likely to be in wle.)
If it is in wle, send a report to the maintainer.  If it is in R, send a 
report to R-bugs.  In either case, supply enough data to reproduce the 
problem.

-- 
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