From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Tue Jan 10 16:55:39 2006
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (Martin Maechler)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:55:39 +0100
Subject: [Rd] eigen()
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601101451540.4195@gannet.stats>
References: <3B7754B8-4982-49BE-B424-A0D9CFC6F056@soc.soton.ac.uk>
	<x2zmm49qb3.fsf@viggo.kubism.ku.dk>
	<43C3B9DF.1090803@cimr.cam.ac.uk>
	<x2mzi49nl7.fsf@viggo.kubism.ku.dk>
	<70356E1A-618F-4610-8E17-ABCB10485282@soc.soton.ac.uk>
	<Pine.LNX.4.61.0601101451540.4195@gannet.stats>
Message-ID: <17347.55547.595680.514608@stat.math.ethz.ch>

>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>>>>>     on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:01:00 +0000 (GMT) writes:

    BDR> I haven't seen most of this thread, but this is a classic case of passing 
    BDR> integers instead of doubles.  And indeed

    BDR> else if(is.numeric(x)) {
    BDR> storage.mode(x) <- "double"

    BDR> has been removed from eigen.R in R-devel in r36952.  So that's the 
    BDR> culprit.

and I am the culprit of that revision.  I'll fix this ASAP.
Martin



[Rd] eigen()
Martin Maechler