From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Nov 25 16:47:01 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue Nov 25 16:49:23 2003
Subject: [Rd] O2 optimization produces wrong code (PR#5315)
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This is a long-known problem: one example is the MASS example in the
script ch15.R, and that has gone wrong on platforms other than Windows.  
It has been reported to the maintainer in the past.

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:51:22 +0100 (CET), jean.coursol@math.u-psud.fr
> wrote :
> 
> >Full_Name: jean coursol
> >Version: 1.7.1, 1.8.0
> >OS: linux & Windows-XP
> >Submission from: (NULL) (129.175.52.7)
> >
> >
> >Binary MS-Windows akima module from CRAN (1.8.0 version) produces wrong results
> >with some data.
> 
> This isn't an R bug, it's a contributed package bug.  You should write
> to the package maintainer Albrecht Gebhardt
> <albrecht.gebhardt@uni-klu.ac.at> and the Windows binary package
> maintainer Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>, including
> code to reproduce the bug.
> 
> I'd suggest trying it with 1.8.1 first; it's possible you were seeing
> the effects of some other bug that has been fixed. 
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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[Rd] O2 optimization produces wrong code (PR#5315)
Prof Brian Ripley