[Rd] Segfault from knn.cv in class package (PR#6856)

[jmacdon at med.umich.edu]

The function knn.cv in the class package doesn't have error checking to
ensure that the length of the classlabel argument is equal to the number
of rows in the test set. If the classlabel is short, the result is often
a segfault.

> library(class)
> dat <- matrix(rnorm(1000), nrow=10)
> cl <- c(rep(1,5), rep(2,5))
> cl2 <- c(rep(1,5), rep(2,4))
> knn.cv(dat, cl)
 [1] 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2
Levels: 1 2
> knn.cv(dat, cl2) # May have to try more than once to get segfault.

This also occurs on my linux box.

Best,

Jim



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Version:
 platform = i386-pc-mingw32
 arch = i386
 os = mingw32
 system = i386, mingw32
 status = 
 major = 1
 minor = 9.0
 year = 2004
 month = 04
 day = 12
 language = R

Windows XP Professional (build 2600) Service Pack 1.0

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics,
package:utils, Autoloads, package:base


James W. MacDonald
Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
University of Michigan Cancer Center
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