[R] GetRNGstate() crashes with 'Segmentation fault'

Timur Elzhov Timur.Elzhov at jinr.ru
Fri Dec 20 18:11:02 CET 2002


On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 04:56:31PM +0000, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> > ~> ./a
> > Segmentation fault
> Whyever do you think that should work?
> 
> If you want to link against libR.so and call into R, you do need to
> initialize R, and you have not done so.
> 
> I also don't see that the program has any use.  The complicated ways to
> manipulate the random number generator are really only of any use from R
> code (via C code, perhaps).
Yes, this code was intended to be used from R!  I decided just to
test it this way ;) .  So, it seems to be impossible to write
separate program, link it against R library, test it (and then create
shared library to used from within R)?

Thanks.


WBR,
Timur.




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