From Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Tue Jul 17 12:48:59 2001
From: Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:48:59 +0200
Subject: [Rd] cmdscale in package mva (PR#1027)
In-Reply-To: <200107171136.NAA19217@pubhealth.ku.dk>
References: <200107171136.NAA19217@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <15188.9771.406214.712244@mithrandir.hornik.net>

>>>>> laurent  writes:

> Full_Name: Laurent Gautier
> Version: 1.3.0-patched
> OS: IRIX 6.5
> Submission from: (NULL) (130.225.67.199)


> Hello,

> The function La.eigen, called by cmdscale in the package mva behaves
> an unexplicable way (for me).

> The following lines show what happened.  I tried the very same on
> linux, and it worked fine.

>> a <- matrix(c(1,2,3,2),3,3)
>> a
>      [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,]    1    2    3
> [2,]    2    1    2
> [3,]    3    2    1
>> library(mva)
>> cmdscale(a)
> Error in La.eigen(Tmat, symmetric = TRUE) : 
> 	On entry to DSYEV  parameter number 8 had an illegal value

I can confirm this on Naras's IRIX machine (in fact, was just about to
report this myself ...)

-k
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[Rd] cmdscale in package mva (PR#1027)
Kurt Hornik