[Rd] Windows XP crashed upon use of "em" function in library (PR#7338)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

Please do read the R FAQ, and report the bug to the package maintainer as
it asks.  It also asks you to send a reproducible example (to the
maintainer).

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 bnewquist at constellagroup.com wrote:

> Full_Name: Brian Newquist
> Version: 2.0.0
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (63.165.234.2)
> 
> Whenever I run the following statement using package "mclust" Windows XP
> crashes.
> 
> > result <- em("E", m1, c(25,50), 10, c(0.49,0.51))
> 
> m1 is just an ordinary data vector (i.e. m1 <- c(24, 27, 51, 48, ...))
> 
> A dialogue box appears saying "R for Windows GUI front-end has encountered a
> problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience."  This dialogue
> box says Please tell Microsoft about this problem.  and asks if I would like to
> send error report. 
> 
> Is there a reason for this?  Is there another function I could use to implement
> the EM algorithm?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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