[R-SIG-Mac] bug in R.app GUI 1.40 for Mac when running R (Under development (unstable)

[Simon Urbanek]

Bill,

I highly doubt that this has anything to do with the GUI as it's not even involved in the trace. Also I can't reproduce it with the latest nightly build even on 10.5.8:

> library(mvtnorm)
> sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2011-07-09 r56345)
Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/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_0.9-9991
> qmvnorm(.95,sigma=diag(2),tail="both")
$quantile
[1] 2.236497

$f.quantile
[1] 2.5831e-06
attr(,"error")
[1] 1e-15
attr(,"msg")
[1] "Normal Completion"

$iter
[1] 11

$estim.prec
[1] 6.103516e-05


However, you setup seems fishy - there is no 1.41 GUI build for R-devel, so are you sure you installed the correct files? If you are not using the nightly builds, then you will need to provide a lot more detail - compilers used, exact configure, BLAS etc. - and then then you may have to look at the backtrace yourself since the CRAN setup doesn't seem at have that issue.

Cheers,
Simon


On Jul 10, 2011, at 11:41 AM, William Revelle wrote:

> Simon and the other developers of the wonderful R.Gui for the  Mac,
> 
> The following code (anything using mvtnorm) reliably crashes R (under development)  when running from the GUI, but not when running  from the X11 window or under R-Studio.
> 
> 
> I reported this several months ago but was told to wait for a newer release.   I believe I have the latest versions of R (unstable), the R GUI, and mvtnorm.
> 
>> library(mvtnorm)
>> sessionInfo()
> 
> 
> R Under development (unstable) (2011-07-08 r56336)
> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/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_0.9-9991 psych_1.0.99
>> qmvnorm(.95,sigma=diag(2),tail="both")
> 
> *** 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$releps),     error = as.double(error), value = as.double(value), inform = as.integer(inform),     PACKAGE = "mvtnorm")
> 2: probval.GenzBretz(algorithm, n, df, lower, upper, infin, corr, corrF, delta)
> 3: probval(algorithm, n, df, lower, upper, infin, corr, corrF, delta)
> 4: mvt(lower = lower, upper = upper, df = 0, corr = corr, delta = mean,     algorithm = algorithm, ...)
> 5: pmvnorm(lower = low, upper = upp, mean = args$mean, corr = args$corr,     sigma = args$sigma, algorithm = algorithm)
> 6: f(upper, ...)
> 7: uniroot(pfct, interval = interval)
> 8: qmvnorm(0.95, sigma = diag(2), tail = "both")
> 
> 
> Good luck and thanks for all the great work.
> 
> Bill
> 
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