[R] hclust-segmentation fault

[Medvedovic, Mario (medvedm)]

Thanks a lot for the assistance. It was an installation mistake - apparently
we did not have BLAS libraries installed. The compiler did not seem to have
been a problem in this case, althought it is an older version (gcc 3.3.1).
Mario.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
>Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 11:51 AM
>To: Medvedovic, Mario (medvedm)
>Cc: 'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
>Subject: RE: [R] hclust-segmentation fault
>
>
>On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Medvedovic, Mario (medvedm) wrote:
>
>> Well, the use of debugger will take some time, but here is a 
>simple code
>> that invariably causes the fault. 
>> Mario.
>> 
>> indata<-matrix(rnorm(1000,0,1),ncol=10)
>> ed<-dist(indata)
>> hc.e<-hclust(ed,"average")
>
>Works fine on R 1.9.1 on our dual Opteron 248 under FC2.
>
>We know of some pertinent compiler bugs on x86_64, so is this 
>gcc 3.3.3 
>or later?
>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
>> >Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 11:14 AM
>> >To: Medvedovic, Mario (medvedm)
>> >Cc: 'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
>> >Subject: Re: [R] hclust-segmentation fault
>> >
>> >
>> >On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Medvedovic, Mario (medvedm) wrote:
>> >
>> >> I am getting the "Segmentation fault" when using hclust in 
>> >R-1.9.1 running
>> >> under SuSe 9.0 64-bit kernel on a dual opteron system with 
>> >8G of RAM. 
>> >> I was wandering if anybody could offer any insight?
>> >
>> >Please try to use the debugger to supply more information, or 
>> >give us some 
>> >code we can reproduce on a similar system to see if we can 
>> >reproduce the 
>> >segfault.
>> >
>> >-- 
>> >Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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