Dear all,
When trying to multiply the same matrices repeatedly I get different
results some of the times.
It is not systematic, which is the fact that is giving me more trouble to
try to isolate the problem.
Basically I am doing X %*% B, where X is a Nx2 matrix and B is a vector
with 2 values. I have the impression (by exploration) that when N<41 the
problem appears randomly, whereas for for N<41, it has not appeared any
time.
When I run a loop with, say, 1000 times doing the same operation, some of
the times the resulting matrix has some "NaN" into it.
Here it goes some code that fails:
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B <- c(0, 4.9039)
X <-
structure(c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, -0.171208033350785, 2.05470005817641, -2.41795651834092,
-0.258302488807007, -2.33857441602606, 0.628992894509171, 3.17491552278606,
-1.44233071945946, 3.15785975396147, -1.99816867735392, 2.86344423987462,
-5.271325440284, -2.0312296185407, -3.60192700841448, 3.38189039590051,
-3.24639622163501, 0.284327647745153, -0.262087980902988, -3.7659454179588,
0.684967001574538, 3.0772201853168, 5.17600286245534, 1.04626227787207,
3.70446276942422, -0.0396039716160263, -0.657289365686855, -1.05808995826547,
-1.93203623162131, -0.0884561017666723, -2.93790617275895, -0.215434948253912,
4.98439842853693, 2.91447973684786, -1.29993065167532, -4.66018971623614,
-6.64275130324818, -5.21531940416414, 0.479257350317855, -1.96095587405884,
1.08909073077384, 1.28904309721095, 1.11327650673847, -0.022977620181631,
3.29959801979137, -2.23876825868105), .Dim = c(45L, 2L), .Dimnames = list(
NULL, c("", "x")))
for (i in 1:1000) {
M <- X %*% B
w <- which(is.nan(M))
l <- length(w)
if (l!=0) {
print(paste("Length", l, "error(s) on", X[w,2], sep=" "))
}
}
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It gives several errors with variable length and on similar positions.
I am using R-2.13.1 under Gentoo Linux
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> version
platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
arch x86_64
os linux-gnu
system x86_64, linux-gnu
status
major 2
minor 13.1
year 2011
month 07
day 08
svn rev 56322
language R
version.string R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
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> sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=ca_AD.UTF-8
[4] LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=C
LC_MESSAGES=ca_AD.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=ca_AD.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=ca_AD.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.13.1
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Thank you,
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- Xavier -
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