[R] R crash with ATLAS precompiled Rblas.dll on Windows XP Core2 Duo

[Uwe Ligges]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> Yes, that Rblas.dll is known to be faulty, and the person who built it 
> is unable to re-build it.  It needs to be removed from CRAN.


Whoops, I forgot to remove it and will do so this afternoon.

Uwe


> (I've also tried to build on Core 2 Duo, and my Cygwin installation has 
> a compiler crash during the build.)
> 
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Law, Jason wrote:
> 
>> I noticed a problem using R 2.7.1 on Windows XP SP2 with the precompiled
>> Atlas Rblas.dll.  Running the code below causes R to crash.  I started R
>> using Rgui --vanilla and am using the precompiled Atlas Rblas.dll from
>> cran.fhcrc.org dated 17-Jul-2007 05:04 for Core2 Duo.
>>
>> The code that causes the crash:
>>
>> x <- rnorm(100)
>> y <- rnorm(100)
>> z <- rnorm(100)
>> loess(z ~ x * y)
>>
>> loess(z ~ x) does not cause a crash using the Atlas BLAS and neither does
>> running the above code with the Rblas.dll that came with R 2.7.1.  In
>> addition, the code runs fine using the Atlas BLAS under R 2.6.2.
>>
>> The windows error information that is printed to the screen when R 
>> closes:
>>
>> AppName: rgui.exe     AppVer: 2.71.45970.0     ModName: rblas.dll
>> ModVer: 2.51.42199.0     Offset: 000501cc
>>
>>
>> sessionInfo returns:
>>
>> R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> I checked the R FAQ, R for Windows FAQ, and the README associated with 
>> the
>> Atlas BLAS on CRAN and couldn't find any information related to possible
>> crash causes.  I've used the ATLAS BLAS for about 6 months on this 
>> machine
>> (it's a new machine) with R 2.6.2.
>>
>> Using debug(stats:::simpleLoess), I've found that the crash occurs on the
>> first iteration of the line:
>>
>> z <- .C(R_loess_raw, as.double(y), as.double(x),
>>                as.double(weights), as.double(robust), as.integer(D),
>>                as.integer(N), as.double(span), as.integer(degree),
>>                as.integer(nonparametric), as.integer(order.drop.sqr),
>>                as.integer(sum.drop.sqr), as.double(span * cell),
>>                as.character(surf.stat), fitted.values = double(N),
>>                parameter = integer(7), a = integer(max.kd),
>>                xi = double(max.kd), vert = double(2 * D), vval = 
>> double((D
>> +
>>                  1) * max.kd), diagonal = double(N), trL = double(1),
>>                delta1 = double(1), delta2 = double(1), 
>> as.integer(surf.stat
>> ==
>>                  "interpolate/exact"))
>>
>> After that, I'm kind of stuck in terms of tracking it down.
>>
>> Thanks for any input,
>>
>> Jason Law
>> City of Portland, OR
>>
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