From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Tue Jan 10 14:16:00 2006
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: 10 Jan 2006 14:16:00 +0100
Subject: [Rd] eigen()
In-Reply-To: <3B7754B8-4982-49BE-B424-A0D9CFC6F056@soc.soton.ac.uk>
References: <3B7754B8-4982-49BE-B424-A0D9CFC6F056@soc.soton.ac.uk>
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Robin Hankin <r.hankin at noc.soton.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi
> 
> I am having difficulty with eigen() on   R-devel_2006-01-05.tar.gz
> 
> Specifically,  in R-2.2.0 I get expected behaviour:
> 
> 
>  > eigen(matrix(1:100,10,10),FALSE,TRUE)$values
> [1]  5.208398e+02+0.000000e+00i -1.583980e+01+0.000000e+00i
> [3] -4.805412e-15+0.000000e+00i  1.347691e-15+4.487511e-15i
> [5]  1.347691e-15-4.487511e-15i -4.269863e-16+0.000000e+00i
> [7]  1.364748e-16+0.000000e+00i -1.269735e-16+0.000000e+00i
> [9] -1.878758e-18+5.031259e-17i -1.878758e-18-5.031259e-17i
>  >
> 
> 
> The same command gives different results in the development version:
> 
> 
>  > eigen(matrix(1:100,10,10),FALSE,TRUE)$values
> [1]  3.903094e-118 -3.903094e-118 -2.610848e-312 -2.995687e-313  
> -2.748516e-313
> [6] -1.073138e-314 -1.061000e-314 -1.060998e-314  4.940656e-324    
> 0.000000e+00
>  > R.version()
> Error: attempt to apply non-function
>  > R.version

Strange and semi-random results on SuSE 9.3 as well:

>  eigen(matrix(1:100,10,10))$values
 [1] -5.393552e+194   3.512001e-68   0.000000e+00   0.000000e+00   0.000000e+00
 [6]   0.000000e+00   0.000000e+00   0.000000e+00   0.000000e+00   0.000000e+00
>  eigen(matrix(1:100,10,10))$values
 [1]  1.526259e-311 -1.041529e-311  1.181720e-313   0.000000e+00   0.000000e+00
 [6]   0.000000e+00   0.000000e+00   0.000000e+00   0.000000e+00   0.000000e+00
>  eigen(matrix(1:100,10,10))$values
 [1] -9.338774e+93  0.000000e+00  0.000000e+00  0.000000e+00  0.000000e+00
 [6]  0.000000e+00  0.000000e+00  0.000000e+00  0.000000e+00  0.000000e+00
>  eigen(matrix(1:100,10,10))$values
 [1]  5.4e-311+ 0.0e+00i -2.5e-311+3.7e-311i -2.5e-311-3.7e-311i
 [4]  2.5e-312+ 0.0e+00i -2.4e-312+ 0.0e+00i  3.2e-317+ 0.0e+00i
 [7]   0.0e+00+ 0.0e+00i   0.0e+00+ 0.0e+00i   0.0e+00+ 0.0e+00i
[10]   0.0e+00+ 0.0e+00i



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[Rd] eigen()
Peter Dalgaard