From mdesai@biostat.cpmc.columbia.edu  Tue Nov 27 21:28:30 2001
From: mdesai@biostat.cpmc.columbia.edu (mdesai@biostat.cpmc.columbia.edu)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:28:30 +0100 (MET)
Subject: [Rd] Table Command (PR#1182)
Message-ID: <200111272128.WAA16840@pubhealth.ku.dk>


Thank you.  Yes, my systems administrator has just confirmed that he used
maximum optimization when compiling R.  Problem (most probably) solved.

Manisha

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> 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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[Rd] Table Command (PR#1182)
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