[R-SIG-Mac] Problem R-4.0 beta and Rmpfr (pre-release)

[Simon Urbanek]

Carsten and Berend,

It means your CPU doesn't support the instructions used, so your Mac is likely older. Can you, please, post the output of

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType

Thanks,
Simon


> On 16/04/2020, at 7:21 PM, carsten.dormann using biom.uni-freiburg.de wrote:
> 
> Can confirm problem:
> 
>> dpois(mpfr(x, 120), 1000)
> 
> *** caught illegal operation ***
> address 0x1116f7c42, cause 'illegal opcode'
> 
> Traceback:
> 1: .class1(object)
> 2: as(value, dataClass)
> 3: setDataPart(x, .Call(Math_mpfr, x, .Math.codes[[.Generic]]))
> 4: exp(-lambda)
> 5: exp(-lambda)
> 6: dpois(mpfr(x, 120), 1000)
> 
> 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: 
> 
> 
>> sessionInfo() # after restart
> R version 4.0.0 alpha (2020-04-01 r78130)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
> Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.6
> 
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
> LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_4.0.0
> 
> 
> Carsten
> 
> 
>> On 16. Apr 2020, at 08:56, Berend Hasselman <bhh using xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> If the pre-release binary of Rmpfr is intended for the R-4.0 beta then I am experiencing "illegal operations" with "illegal opcode" errors.
>> 
>> <sessionInfo>
>> 
>> R version 4.0.0 beta (2020-04-14 r78227)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
>> Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.4
>> 
>> Matrix products: default
>> BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
>> LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
>> 
>> locale:
>> [1] en_IE.UTF-8/en_IE.UTF-8/en_IE.UTF-8/C/en_IE.UTF-8/en_IE.UTF-8
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
>> 
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] compiler_4.0.0
>> 
>> </sessionInfo>
>> 
>> A simple example session is
>> 
>> <(in+output)>
>> 
>>> library(gmp,lib.loc=".");library(Rmpfr,lib.loc=".")
>> 
>> Attaching package: 'gmp'
>> 
>> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
>> 
>>   %*%, apply, crossprod, matrix, tcrossprod
>> 
>> C code of R package 'Rmpfr': GMP using 64 bits per limb
>> 
>> 
>> Attaching package: 'Rmpfr'
>> 
>> The following object is masked from 'package:gmp':
>> 
>>   outer
>> 
>> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
>> 
>>   dbinom, dgamma, dnorm, dpois, pnorm
>> 
>> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
>> 
>>   cbind, pmax, pmin, rbind
>> 
>>> x <- 1400+ 0:10
>>> print(dpois(x, 1000), digits =18) ## standard R's double precision
>> [1] 1.46677334419659338e-33 1.04694742626454156e-33 7.46752800474106016e-34
>> [4] 5.32254312525935864e-34 3.79098513195210765e-34 2.69821005832831136e-34
>> [7] 1.91906832029070091e-34 1.36394336907638670e-34 9.68709779173582432e-35
>> [10] 6.87515812046484244e-35 4.87599866699657026e-35
>>> dpois(mpfr(x, 120), 1000)## more accuracy for the same
>> 
>> *** caught illegal operation ***
>> address 0x10a6e1c42, cause 'illegal opcode'
>> 
>> Traceback:
>> 1: .class1(object)
>> 2: as(value, dataClass)
>> 3: setDataPart(x, .Call(Math_mpfr, x, .Math.codes[[.Generic]]))
>> 4: exp(-lambda)
>> 5: exp(-lambda)
>> 6: dpois(mpfr(x, 120), 1000)
>> 
>> Possible actions:
>> 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
>> 2: normal R exit
>> 3: exit R without saving workspace
>> 4: exit R saving workspace
>> 
>> </(in+output)
>> 
>> Other trials seem to experience similar issues.
>> 
>> 
>> regards
>> 
>> Berend
>> 
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