[R] i suspect that there a memory leak in "vmmin"?

[Vumani Dlamini]

Dear listers,
Am currently using MCMC approaches to estimate some parameters of my model. 
One parameter has to be updated using a tuned gamma distribution. So at each 
iteration I estimate the mean and variance of the density of the gamma 
approximation using "vmmin" (i also supply the gradient argument). For 
moderate replications the procedure works, but if I increase them R crashes. 
If instead of the tuned gamma density i use the adaptive rejection sampling 
procedure by Gilks and Wild (downloaded from their website) the procedure 
returns the results for any number of replications, thus I suspected that 
there was a memory leak in "vmmin". I am not an expert in "C"  and am only a 
windows user. Have tried some of the debugging tools available to us windows 
users: gdb, mpatrol, duma without success. Am not sure whether this is a 
bug.

Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
Windows XP

Regards, Vumani



Rgui.exe caused an Access Violation at location 100dec2f in module R.dll 
Reading from location 3ff7c27d.

Registers:
eax=000063ac ebx=01e773a0 ecx=3ff7c27a edx=00000002 esi=01e254b4 
edi=00000002
eip=100dec2f esp=00e0ecb0 ebp=00e0ed78 iopl=0         nv up ei pl nz na pe 
nc
cs=001b  ss=0023  ds=0023  es=0023  fs=003b  gs=0000             
efl=00000202

Call stack:
100DEC2F  R.dll:100DEC2F  SET_TAG
100E0527  R.dll:100E0527  Rf_allocVector
100E0D37  R.dll:100E0D37  R_alloc
100F2ACA  R.dll:100F2ACA  vmmin
023F5E96  gem.dll:023F5E96  weibullMH
10088C33  R.dll:10088C33  do_dotcall
100B8827  R.dll:100B8827  Rf_eval
100BA4D2  R.dll:100BA4D2  do_set
100B86CB  R.dll:100B86CB  Rf_eval
100BA5D5  R.dll:100BA5D5  do_begin
100B86CB  R.dll:100B86CB  Rf_eval
100BB8EB  R.dll:100BB8EB  Rf_applyClosure
100B85F8  R.dll:100B85F8  Rf_eval
100BA4D2  R.dll:100BA4D2  do_set
100B86CB  R.dll:100B86CB  Rf_eval
100DB51C  R.dll:100DB51C  Rf_ReplIteration
100DBAA6  R.dll:100DBAA6  run_Rmainloop
004013CF  Rgui.exe:004013CF
00401316  Rgui.exe:00401316
00401518  Rgui.exe:00401518
00401236  Rgui.exe:00401236
00401288  Rgui.exe:00401288
7C816D4F  kernel32.dll:7C816D4F  RegisterWaitForInputIdle