Re: [Rd] GC encountered a node (…) with an unknown SEXP type

2013-02-20 Thread Simon Urbanek
Roger, please try tracking it with valgrind - that will typically trigger at the cause whereas what you see is just the fall-out much later when the memory got already corrupted. Cheers, Simon On Feb 20, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Roger Koenker wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm trying to track down a very

[Rd] GC encountered a node (…) with an unknown SEXP type

2013-02-20 Thread Roger Koenker
Dear All, I'm trying to track down a very erratic bug in some fortran; I have an example that quite consistently segfaults on windoz, and more sporadically on mac, all in the course of doing some bootstrap calculations, varying the set.seed call, but I'm now trying to see what is going on on

[Rd] Using SQLBulkOperations in RODBC

2013-02-20 Thread Alireza Mahani
I have a question for the R core development team: Are there any near-term plans to incorporate the ODBC API function SQLBulkOperations into the RODBC package? As you are probably well aware, the sqlSave() function uses a row-by-row insert (even in the 'fast' version) that imposes heavy DB transac

[Rd] R_CHECK_FUNCS

2013-02-20 Thread Patrick Welche
I was compiling R on a system which admittedly was in the odd situation that it declared a function in math.h, but didn't have the associated implementation in libm, and the R 2.15.1 compilation failed. It turns out that R_CHECK_FUNCS is rather less robust than the standard AC_CHECK_FUNCS which ac

[Rd] Simultaneously adding rows and columns by '[<-.data.frame' may fail

2013-02-20 Thread Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono
I saw the following in R help page "Extract.data.frame". The replacement methods can be used to add whole column(s) by specifying non-existent column(s), in which case the column(s) are added at the right-hand edge of the data frame and numerical indices must be contiguous to e