[R-SIG-Mac] problem with mac gui and mvtnorm for R2.14.0 (unstable)

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 20, 2011, at 7:44 PM, William Revelle wrote:

> Dear Mac R users and developers,
> 
> mvtnorm when used in the Mac.app Gui crashes R2.14.0 (unstable).
> 
> This does not happen when using R in X windows or when using Rstudio, nor does it happen with R2.13.0
> 
> I note that my version of R2.14.0 is a month old, but the most recent version does not seem to available from the research.att.com page.
> 

For a good reason - it fails tests. Once you get a fresh build that works we can talk again - but note that R-devel is currently "unstable" so you should not expect it to work at this point anyway.

Cheers,
Simon


> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 Under development (unstable) (2011-03-16 r54826)
> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] mvtnorm_0.9-96 psych_1.0-96
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.14.0
>> n <- 5
>> mean <- rep(0, 5)
>> lower <- rep(-1, 5)
>> upper <- rep(3, 5)
>> corr <- diag(5)
>> corr[lower.tri(corr)] <- 0.5
>> corr[upper.tri(corr)] <- 0.5
>> prob <- pmvnorm(lower, upper, mean, corr)
> 
> *** caught bus error ***
> address 0x0, cause 'non-existent physical address'
> 
> Traceback:
> 1: .Fortran("mvtdst", N = as.integer(n), NU = as.integer(df), LOWER = as.double(lower),     UPPER = as.double(upper), INFIN = as.integer(infin), CORREL = as.double(corrF),     DELTA = as.double(delta), MAXPTS = as.integer(x$maxpts),     ABSEPS = as.double(x$abseps), RELEPS = as.double(x$releps),     error = as.double(error), value = as.double(value), inform = as.integer(inform),     PACKAGE = "mvtnorm")
> 2: probval.GenzBretz(algorithm, n, df, lower, upper, infin, corr, corrF, delta)
> 3: probval(algorithm, n, df, lower, upper, infin, corr, corrF, delta)
> 4: mvt(lower = lower, upper = upper, df = 0, corr = corr, delta = mean,     algorithm = algorithm, ...)
> 5: pmvnorm(lower, upper, mean, corr)
> 
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