[R-sig-Debian] make check reg-tests-1b.R fails with Ubuntu R

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Andrew,

Crossprod etc all dispatch to BLAS / LAPACK.  The error appears to be that
z[1,3] is 0 whereas a NA gets expected.

I just verified this on another 32bit box where I had stock R and little
else:

> x <- matrix(c(1, 0, NA, 1), 2, 2) ; y <- matrix(c(1, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0), 3, 2)
> (z <- tcrossprod(x, y))
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]   NA   NA    0
[2,]    2    1    0
>  identical(z, x %*% t(y))
[1] FALSE
>

but all it takes is 

wajig install libatlas3gf-base

after which we get 

dd at chibud:~$ R

R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

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>  x <- matrix(c(1, 0, NA, 1), 2, 2) ; y <- matrix(c(1, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0), 3, 2)
> (z <- tcrossprod(x, y))
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]   NA   NA   NA
[2,]    2    1    0
>  identical(z, x %*% t(y))
[1] TRUE
> 


So try installing 'a better BLAS'.  Maybe we can distill this into a pure C
program exhibiting the same issue and bring it to the BLAS maintainer?

Dirk


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