Ordinary functions should not alter their inputs but in R-2.15.2 svd(LINPACK=TRUE,X) does. (It worked in 2.15.0 but not in 2.15.1 or 2.15.2 and became deprecated in 2.15.2.)
> X <- matrix(c(1,2,3, 5,7,11, 13,17,19), 3, 3) > X [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 5 13 [2,] 2 7 17 [3,] 3 11 19 > svd(X, LINPACK=TRUE)$d [1] 31.9718214 2.3882717 0.3143114 Warning message: In svd(X, LINPACK = TRUE) : LINPACK = TRUE is deprecated > X [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1.2672612 -13.8975846 -27.7951692 [2,] 0.5345225 1.0945920 2.1072825 [3,] 0.8017837 0.9955161 -0.9794695 > version _ platform x86_64-w64-mingw32 arch x86_64 os mingw32 system x86_64, mingw32 status major 2 minor 15.2 year 2012 month 10 day 26 svn rev 61015 language R version.string R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) nickname Trick or Treat > sessionInfo() R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel