Greetings, Apart from arm, most major (?) archs now have r-base [1] packages. R-base fails during 'make check'; Othmar kindly rebuild the package by hand and sent me the pertinent log output which is in the attached mail. For reference, documentation on the hundreds of R packages typically comes with examples which can be evoked with the example() command. For 'make check', all of these are run via some Perl magic. The error occurs in the examples for the Bessel family of special functions [2]. The code for these Bessel function comes from src/nmath/bessel*.c and AFAICT not from the glibc.
Could you Arm experts look into this? Is there a genuine Arm floating point issue hiding? Feel free to pester me with R related questions, I'd be happy to relay this back to the R project. Dirk [1] R is a wonderful stats and data analysis "system"; a GNU implementation of the S language for which its creator got the ACM Software Systems award previously given for such things as tcp/ip, postscript, tex, .... See the website at www.r-project.org [2] If you have a (non-arm) box with r-base handy, try "help(Bessel)" and "example(Bessel)"; the graphs from the examples are very pretty. -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
--- Begin Message ---hi, On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:56:34AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Ja, genau das hatte ich im build log gesehen. Kannst Du mir mal schnell > base-Ex.Rout schicken? also hier steht: > matplot(nu, t(outer(xx,nu, besselI)), type = 'l', ylim = c(-50,200), + main = expression(paste("Bessel ",I[nu](x)," for fixed ", x, + ", as ",f(nu))), + xlab = expression(nu)) Error in title(main = main, sub = sub, xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab, ...) : Metric information not yet available for this device In addition: Warning messages: 1: Nonfinite axis limits [GScale(nan,nan,1, .); log=0] 2: relative range of values = 9.0072e+15 * EPS, is small (axis 1). 3: Nonfinite axis limits [GScale(-inf,inf,2, .); log=0] 4: relative range of values = 9.0072e+15 * EPS, is small (axis 2). Execution halted so long Othmar PS: ich fahr nachhause aber in einer stunde les ich wieder mails.
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