[R] R 2.8.1 and 2.9 alpha crash when running survest of Design package

[Thomas Lumley]

The Design package is incompatible with updates to the survival package (version 2.35 and higher) that were made for version 2.9.0. It calls some internal fitting functions (coxreg.fit, agreg.fit) whose arguments have changed.

According to the CRAN checks, about a dozen other packages were also affected by other changes in the update, but most just give an error message rather than crash. Maintainers of all the packages have been notified and given my best guess at the reason for their specific incompatibility (and an offer of further assistance if necessary)

You may need to downgrade to version 2.34 of the survival package until Design is updated.

      -thomas



On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Nguyen Dinh Nguyen wrote:

> Dear Prof Harrell and everyone,
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> My PC: Window XP service pack 3 and service pack 2
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> R version 2.8.1 and 2.9 alpha
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> For the last 3 days, after updating R, my two computers have been facing
> problems when running existing and runable R commands that involves with
> Design package
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> I attempt to use 'survest', but I failed all the times with R (both 2.8.1
> and 2.9 alpha) being shut down immediately with following error report
> messages.
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> AppName: rgui.exe AppVer: 2.90.48212.0   ModName: survival.dll
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> ModVer: 0.0.0.0   Offset: 00007749
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> However, if I run these commands on other computers which have not been
> updated for 2 week, they run OK
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> Could you please consider the matter and give me advice
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> I am looking forward to hearing from you soon
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> Regards
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> Nguyen D Nguyen
> Garvan Institute of Medical Research
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> Sydney, Australia
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle