Hi, example(smooth.spline) fails with the non byte-compiled version of the smooth.spline function:
> example(smooth.spline) smth.s> require(graphics) smth.s> attach(cars) smth.s> plot(speed, dist, main = "data(cars) & smoothing splines") [... more output deleted...] smth.s> lines(smooth.spline(speed, dist, df=10), lty=2, col = "red") Error in smooth.spline(speed, dist, df = 10) : smoothing parameter value too small More precisely, here is what happens on a fresh R session (R-2.15.1 configured with --disable-byte-compiled-packages): ** Checking that smooth.spline() is not compiled: > smooth.spline [... output deleted...] <environment: namespace:stats> ** 1st call works: > res <- smooth.spline(c(4, 4, 7, 7, 8, 9), c(2, 10, 4, 22, 16, 10)) ** 2nd call fails: > res <- smooth.spline(c(4, 4, 7, 7, 8, 9), c(2, 10, 4, 22, 16, 10)) Error in smooth.spline(c(4, 4, 7, 7, 8, 9), c(2, 10, 4, 22, 16, 10)) : smoothing parameter value too small ** 3rd call (but now with the compiled version of the function) still fails: > library(compiler) > smooth.spline2 <- cmpfun(smooth.spline) > smooth.spline2 [... output deleted...] <bytecode: 0x16813a0> <environment: namespace:stats> > res2 <- smooth.spline2(c(4, 4, 7, 7, 8, 9), c(2, 10, 4, 22, 16, 10)) Error in smooth.spline2(c(4, 4, 7, 7, 8, 9), c(2, 10, 4, 22, 16, 10)) : smoothing parameter value too small Thanks, H. My session info: > sessionInfo() R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) 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] compiler stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods [8] base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.15.1 -- Hervé Pagès Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 P.O. Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024 E-mail: hpa...@fhcrc.org Phone: (206) 667-5791 Fax: (206) 667-1319 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel