[R] ginv and matlab's pinv give different results

[Pedro Mardones]

Dear all;
I'm kind of confused with the results obtained using the ginv function
from package MASS and pinv function from Matlab. Accroding to the
documentation both functions performs a Moore-Penrose generalized
inverse of a matrix X. The problem is when I change the tolerance
value, say to 1E-3.

Here is some output from ginv
195.2674402	235.6758714	335.0830253	8.977515484	-291.7798965
428.8266383	165.9809056	284.0561017	-74.35007018	-210.3373981
440.6537582	42.44715935	290.4538488	-58.74366626	-86.71457799
246.4469887	-36.24936825	397.6034028	-107.7574448	10.7545897
-17.07138404	30.43896492	399.3831596	-88.49681959	12.33524917


ad here from pinv
1.988794963	4.931306729	-12.72706642	-3.903229019	-4.516082822
3.017403231	4.799144574	-14.43317599	-5.388596501	-5.872449411
4.951830097	4.684716091	-17.13075023	-6.584430072	-7.142673623
7.457154317	2.896685565	-21.59318352	-11.38286985	-10.58210901
7.841116927	0.836247791	-23.12560946	-13.99460333	-11.8333927

I'm sure it must be some explanation that I'm not aware of. If anyone
can (want) to run the test I can email the data set
Thanks for any idea

PM