From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Nov 27 21:19:14 2001
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:19:14 +0100 (MET)
Subject: [Rd] Table Command (PR#1182)
Message-ID: <200111272119.WAA16776@pubhealth.ku.dk>

Did this system pass make check?

I believe this happens if you use aggresive optimizations under the SunPro
compiler, which do not respect IEEE arithmetic and do fail make check.
In particular, avoid -fast.


On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Manisha Desai wrote:

>
> Thanks for your response.  Here is some information on my system.  I will
> speak with my systems administrator if the problem is not obvious.
>
> Manisha
>
> > version
>          _
> platform sparc-sun-solaris2.8
> arch     sparc
> os       solaris2.8
> system   sparc, solaris2.8
> status
> major    1
> minor    3.0
> year     2001
> month    06
> day      22
> language R
>
>
>
> On 27 Nov 2001, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
>
> > mdesai@biostat.cpmc.columbia.edu writes:
> >
> > > Full_Name: Manisha Desai
> > > Version: 1.3.0
> > > OS: UNIX
> > > Submission from: (NULL) (156.111.36.213)
> > >
> > >
> > > There may be a bug in the table command.
> > > The value of 0 does not appear to show up (at least in this version of R).
> > > The following is an example:
> > >
> > > > blah<-c(rep(1,100),rep(0,100))
> > > > table(blah)
> > >
> > > Gives the following:
> > >
> > > blah
> > >   1
> > > 100
> > >
> > > Doing a summary shows that blah does contain values of 0.
> > >
> > > > summary(blah)
> > >    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
> > >     0.0     0.0     0.5     0.5     1.0     1.0
> >
> > Doesn't happen on any version of "UNIX" that I have access to. I think
> > we had a report once where something like that was caused by an
> > incorrect compiler (or compiler flag). We need to have full
> > information on your system and build to do anything about it.
> >
> > To wit (Solaris 7, R-1.3.1)
> >
> > > blah<-c(rep(1,100),rep(0,100))
> > > table(blah)
> > blah
> >   0   1
> > 100 100
> >
> >
> > --
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> > ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk)             FAX: (+45) 35327907
> >
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[Rd] Table Command (PR#1182)
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