[R-sig-Debian] Illegal operation with lm on Debian Sid, PowerPC architecture

[Rubén Gómez Antolí]

Hello all:

(First of all, sorry for my very bad english)

I came from R-help-es with this problem, they say me this is a better 
place to find a solution, I hope that.

I try to use lm function, then R exploit. After I cleaned my code 
without success I try the basic: open R (try on console and Rkward) and 
run lm examples, this is the output:

---------- console cut -------------------
R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu (32-bit)

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 > example(lm)

lm> require(graphics)

lm> ## Annette Dobson (1990) "An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models".
lm> ## Page 9: Plant Weight Data.
lm> ctl <- c(4.17,5.58,5.18,6.11,4.50,4.61,5.17,4.53,5.33,5.14)

lm> trt <- c(4.81,4.17,4.41,3.59,5.87,3.83,6.03,4.89,4.32,4.69)

lm> group <- gl(2,10,20, labels=c("Ctl","Trt"))

lm> weight <- c(ctl, trt)

lm> lm.D9 <- lm(weight ~ group)

  *** caught illegal operation ***
address 0xf759c60, cause 'illegal opcode'

Traceback:
  1: lm.fit(x, y, offset = offset, singular.ok = singular.ok, ...)
  2: lm(weight ~ group)
  3: eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos)
  4: eval.with.vis(ei, envir)
  5: source(tf, local, echo = echo, prompt.echo = paste(prompt.prefix, 
   getOption("prompt"), sep = ""), continue.echo = paste(prompt.prefix, 
     getOption("continue"), sep = ""), verbose = verbose, 
max.deparse.length = Inf,     encoding = "UTF-8", skip.echo = skips, 
keep.source = TRUE)
  6: example(lm)

Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace
Selection: 1
aborting ...
Instrucción ilegal
----------------- end of console cut ---------------------------

The address is ever the same in all of test, I think is a important point.

Session info:

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
Platform: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu (32-bit)

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=es_ES.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=es_ES.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=es_ES.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=es_ES.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

My machine is a PowerBook G4 and I'm in Debian Sid, last upgrade run 
now, yesterday was the n-1 upgrade.

Related R packages on my system:

$ dpkg -l |grep r- |grep GNU |awk '{print $2 $3}'
r-base-core2.14.0-1
r-base-html2.14.0-1
r-cran-boot1.3-3-1
r-cran-car2.0-11-1
r-cran-chron2.3-42-1
r-cran-class7.3-3-1
r-cran-cluster1.14.1-1
r-cran-codetools0.2-8-1
r-cran-date1.2.31-1
r-cran-fbasics2110.79-1
r-cran-foreign0.8.47-1
r-cran-gdata2.8.2-1
r-cran-getopt1.17-1
r-cran-gtools2.6.2-1
r-cran-kernsmooth2.23-7-1
r-cran-lattice0.20-0-1
r-cran-mass7.3-16-1
r-cran-matrix1.0-2-1
r-cran-mgcv1.7-11-1
r-cran-nlme3.1.102-1
r-cran-nnet7.3-1-2
r-cran-plotrix3.2-6-1
r-cran-quadprog1.5-4-1
r-cran-rcpp0.9.7-1
r-cran-rpart3.1.50-1
r-cran-spatial7.3-3-1
r-cran-survival2.36-10-1
r-cran-timedate2131.00-1
r-cran-timeseries2130.92-1
r-cran-tseries0.10-27-1
r-cran-xtable1:1.5-6-1
r-cran-zoo1.7-6-1
r-doc-html2.14.0-1
r-recommended2.14.0-1

And from sources, installed with "R CMD Install package" (root user):

akima_0.5-4.tar.gz
cacheSweave_0.6.tar.gz
climatol_2.0.tar.gz
digest_0.4.2.tar.gz
filehash_2.1-1.tar.gz
formatR_0.2-1.tar.gz
highlight_0.2-5.tar.gz
iterators_1.0.4.tar.gz
itertools_0.1-1.tar.gz
leaps_2.9.tar.gz
locfit_1.5-6.tar.gz
optparse_0.9.1.tar.gz
parser_0.0-13.tar.gz
pastecs_1.3-11.tar.gz
pgfSweave_1.2.1.tar.gz
plyr_1.5.2.tar.gz
reshape_0.8.4.tar.gz
reshape2_1.1.tar.gz
stashR_0.3-3.tar.gz
stringr_0.4.tar.gz
tikzDevice_0.6.2.tar.gz
TSA_0.98.tar.gz
TSAgg_0.2-1.tar.gz

Anyone can reproduce this fail? Is a bug? Can I do some more test? Try 
with a debugger?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards.

Salud y Revolución.

Lobo.
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