[R] internal error -3 in R_decompress1

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 13/08/2013 18:47, Jannis wrote:
> Dear r users,
>
>
> what could cause such an error:
>
> "internal error -3 in R_decompress1"
>
>
> unfortunately the error kills all my usual error catching mechanisms an
> appears on a remote cluster so I can not really tell you which command
> etc is causing it.

It is a corrupt package installation, so re-install.

>
>
> Thanks for any hints on where to dig for the solution (or even the just
> cause).
>
> Jannis
>
>
>
> R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>   [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>   [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
>   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils methods
> [8] base
>
> other attached packages:
>   [1] snowfall_1.84-4            snow_0.3-12
>   [3] DistributionUtils_0.5-1    RUnit_0.4.26
>   [5] RColorBrewer_1.0-5         plotrix_3.5
>   [7] doMC_1.3.0                 iterators_1.0.6
>   [9] multicore_0.1-7            plyr_1.8
> [11] raster_2.1-49              sp_1.0-11
> [13] abind_1.4-0                foreach_1.4.1
> [15] RNetCDF_1.6.1-2            Rssa_0.9.10
> [17] forecast_4.06              svd_0.3.2-1
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>   [1] codetools_0.2-8  colorspace_1.2-2 compiler_3.0.0 fracdiff_1.4-2
>   [5] grid_3.0.0       lattice_0.20-15  nnet_7.3-7 quadprog_1.5-5
>   [9] tools_3.0.0      tseries_0.10-32  zoo_1.7-10
>
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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