From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Jun  5 15:02:02 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu Jun  5 15:02:18 2003
Subject: [Rd] (PR#3196) Failure to read the instructions is not a bug in R
In-Reply-To: <200306051237.h55Cbc2b009808@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306051353410.1215-100000@gannet.stats>

Note, the R-admin manual tells you *not* to use that version of gcc.

Now you know why the INSTALL file says

  The main source of information on installation is the `R Installation
  and Administration Manual', an HTML copy of which is available as file
  `doc/html/R-admin.html'.  Please read that before installing R.  But
  if you are impatient, read on but please refer to the manual to
  resolve any problems.

So, why not follow that advice?  Preferably, *before* sending a bug 
report!

FYI, the gcc Sparc Solaris bug is fixed in 3.2.3 and 3.3.


On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 mn@cs.york.ac.uk wrote:

> Full_Name: Mark Nelson
> Version: 1.7.0
> OS: Solaris 9

Sparc, I presume but not stated.

> Submission from: (NULL) (144.32.160.78)
> 
> 
> When trying to produce a histogram, R crashes.  Steps to reproduce the problem -
> 
> 
> > a <-  rnorm(100,1,1)
> > a 
> > hist(a)
> 
> Note source code was compiled with gcc 3.2.2

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[Rd] (PR#3196) Failure to read the instructions is not a bug in R
Prof Brian Ripley