Dear community,

I encountered a very disturbing phenomenon today:

When I try to fit any gam() with mgcv R aborts. I could not find any post
regarding this in google, which mades in even more strange.

I am using the latest Ubuntu, latest R and latest mgcv everything up to
date. The crash occured too with the last mgcv 1.7-11.

This is the output from the R shell:

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R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

> library(mgcv)
This is mgcv 1.7-12. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
> dat <- gamSim(1 , n=400 , dist="normal",scale = 2)
Gu & Wahba 4 term additive model
> gam( y ~ s(x0) , data = dat)
Aborted

</pre>

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 - amd64, R version 2.14.0 and mgcv 1.7-12.

any ideas?

Reinhard

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