[R] bug in error message?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Erich Neuwirth wrote:

> mm<-c(1,1,1,1)
> dim(mm)<-c(2,2)
> solve(mm)
>
> produces
>
> Error in solve.default(mm) : singular matrix `a' in solve
>
> shouldn't this refer to
> `mm'
> instead of
> `a'

There are two matrix arguments in solve.default, called `a' and `b'.
It is telling you that `a' is singular.  There is no matrix `mm' in
solve().


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