On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...make[4]: *** [base-Ex.Rout] Error 1 > make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/pd/r-devel/BUILD/tests/Examples' > make[3]: *** [test-Examples-Base] Error 2 > .... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] BUILD]$ tail tests/Examples/base-Ex.Rout.fail >> kappa(x2 <- cbind(x1,2:11))# high! [x2 is singular!] > [1] 8.351867e+16 >> >> hilbert <- function(n) { i <- 1:n; 1 / outer(i - 1, i, "+") } >> sv9 <- svd(h9 <- hilbert(9))$ d >> kappa(h9)# pretty high! > [1] 728289254735 >> kappa(h9, exact = TRUE) == max(sv9) / min(sv9) > Error in La.svd(x, nu, nv) : BLAS/LAPACK routine 'DGEBRD' gave error code -10 > Execution halted > > This happens on both x86_64 and x86 installs of FC4. > > I have a strong sense of deja vu regarding this error.
Probably because it is discussed in the R-admin manual as having previously appeared in Debian and being traced to an erroneous patch to the Lapack 3.0 sources. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel