[R-sig-Debian] Lapack or Blas crashing R when using "large" matrices (Ubuntu 11.04)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Works fine here (Ubuntu 11.04, R 2.13.0 from CRAN):

edd at max:~$ cat /tmp/matias.r 
p <- 500
n <- 300
set.seed(1234)
x <- matrix(rnorm(n*p), n, p)
sih <- var(x)
b <- svd(sih)

cat("All good\n")
edd at max:~$ r /tmp/matias.r 
All good
edd at max:~$ 

Maybe you have the wrong atlas package installed?  What does this yield for
you:

edd at max:~$ dpkg -l | grep "atlas\|blas"
ii  gotoblas2-helper                 0.1-12.local.1                   GotoBLAS2 helper
ii  libatlas-headers                 3.6.0-24ubuntu1                  Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software,C header files
ii  libatlas3gf-base                 3.8.3-29                         Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, generic shared
ii  libblas-dev                      1.2-8                            Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3, static library
ii  libblas-test                     1.2-8                            Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3, testing programs
ii  libblas3gf                       1.2-8                            Basic Linear Algebra Reference implementations, shared library
edd at max:~$ 

showing that I use the standard Atlas package from Ubuntu.

Dirk

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