Bug summary: glm() causes a segfault if the argument 'data' is a data frame with more than 16384 rows.
Bug demonstration: -------input --------------- N <- 16400 df <- data.frame(x=runif(N, min=1,max=2),y=rpois(N, 2)) glm(y ~ x, family=poisson, data=df) ------ output --------------- *** caught segfault *** address (nil), cause 'unknown' Traceback: 1: ifelse(y == 0, 1, y/mu) 2: dev.resids(y, mu, weights) 3: glm.fit(x = X, y = Y, weights = weights, start = start, etastart = etastart, mustart = mustart, offset = offset, family = family, control = control, intercept = attr(mt, "intercept") > 0) 4: glm(y ~ x, family = poisson, data = df) -------------------------------- The code generates a segfault if the value of 'N' is greater than 16384. regards Adrian Baddeley //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu arch = x86_64 os = linux-gnu system = x86_64, linux-gnu status = major = 2 minor = 10.1 year = 2009 month = 12 day = 14 svn rev = 50720 language = R version.string = R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) Locale: LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel