[R] R crashes when loading rgl package before minqa package

[Ravi Varadhan]

I get this on Windows (it does not crash):

> library(minqa)
> library(rgl)
> newuoa(initpar, optimft)
Error in newuoa(initpar, optimft) : 
  non-finite x values not allowed in calfun
In addition: Warning message:
In log(x[4]) : NaNs produced
>

This tells me that you should be constraining your parameter x[4] (may be even x[5]) to be non-negative:

Here is what I get with `bobyqa':

> bobyqa(initpar, optimft, lower=c(-Inf, -Inf, -Inf, 0, 0))
parameter estimates: -5.311767080681, -3861.89005072333, 979.239647766226, 0.268156271922112, 27.6418856936228 
objective: 1457.20987728737 
number of function evaluations: 78 
>


Ravi.

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Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University

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----- Original Message -----
From: Gaspard Lequeux <Gaspard.Lequeux at biomath.ugent.be>
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:40 am
Subject: [R] R crashes when loading rgl package before minqa package
To: r-help at r-project.org


>  Hej,
>  
>  Calling newuoa (from the minqa package) makes R crash when the 
> package rgl is loaded first. This however only on certain selected data.
>  
>  The data used for testing (saved to 'bugs.R'):
>  
>  
>  xvals = c(1,2,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,15,16,18,19,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36)
>  
>  yvals = c(857.7597,975.8624,978.2655,979.3034,965.5919,983.8946,992.2512,992.1178,979.5379,974.4269,968.4113,991.5210,977.3361,985.7800,975.5220,974.6880,973.8102,980.7295,982.0034,984.7993,978.4948,970.4351,969.0718,983.7892,976.3637,980.7833,987.1665,976.6000,975.1332,971.0757,989.4693)
>  
>  initpar = c(-5.1471384, -3861.8905839, 979.2616002, 0.2572355, 27.5705764)
>  
>  optimft <- function(x) {
>    yft = x[2] + (x[3] - x[2])/((1 + exp(x[1] * (log(xvals) - log(x[4]))))^x[5])
>    return(sum((yvals - yft)^2))
>  }
>  
>  
>  Sequence of commands needed to make the bug appear:
>  
>  <Start R>
>  source('bugs.R')
>  library(minqa)
>  library(rgl)
>  newuoa(initpar, optimft)
>   => OK
>  
>  <Start R>
>  source('bugs.R')
>  library(rgl)
>  library(minqa)
>  newuoa(initpar, optimft)
>    => Crash: segfault: address 0x18, cause 'memory not mapped'
>  
>  I found the bug using the package qpcR, where rgl is loaded when 
> loading qpcR while minqa is only loaded later, when needed.
>  
>  
>  Running on Debian squeeze 64 bit.
>  R version: R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>  rgl version: 0.91
>  minqa version:  1.1.9
>  Rcpp version: 0.8.6 (loaded by minqa)
>  
>  Kind regards,
>  
>  Gaspard Lequeux
>  
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