From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Mar  5 18:17:53 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Mar  5 18:17:58 2004
Subject: [Rd] qnorm(2) ends with segmentation fault (PR#6648)
Message-ID: <20040305171753.628B210425@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de wrote:

> linuxfavor@sohu.com wrote:
> 
> > Full_Name: Xiong Guanglei
> > Version: 1.8.1
> > OS: Linux
> > Submission from: (NULL) (202.38.103.50)
> > 
> > 
> > qnorm(x)
> > when x>1.0
> 
> is not defined, hence Not a Number: NaN
> Obviously not a bug.

It is a bug if he gets a segfault, but I do not (and I suppose neither
does Uwe).  As the value is checked in src/nmath/dnorm.c, a segfault seems
to indicate a badly broken build of R.

So, what is meant by `Linux', and precisely what compilers, kernel and 
libc were used?

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[Rd] qnorm(2) ends with segmentation fault (PR#6648)
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