From tlumley@u.washington.edu  Fri Oct 26 17:56:25 2001
From: tlumley@u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:56:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] Problem testing R version 1.3.1 (PR#1143)
In-Reply-To: <3BD991E5.C9905BF9@ggr.co.uk>
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.33.0110260954580.114078-100000@homer37.u.washington.edu>

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Gordon Lack wrote:

> > >    I have compiled R version 1.3.1 on a Linux system.
> >...
> > Which one? In particular, which compiler version?
>
>    Redhat6.2 with:
>
> gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
>
> > Unfortunately, the output is buffered so that one on catastrophic
> > error will lose the last bit. It might be more informative if you ran the
> > command directly, without the redirection to base-Ex.Rout.
>
>   Good point.  The error at the end is now:
>
> =====
> > ##--- An example for the use of  `asp' :
> > library(mva)
> > data(eurodist)
> > loc <- cmdscale(eurodist)
> Segmentation fault
> =====

We've seen this one before. It's usually due to a problem with the Fortran
compile or flags such as linking in a math library compiled with different
flags from R.

	-thomas

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[Rd] Problem testing R version 1.3.1 (PR#1143)
Thomas Lumley