Dear R people, Tests of nlme on aarch64 seem to fail:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Running specific tests for package ‘nlme’ Running ‘anova.gls.R’ Error: running the tests in ‘anova.gls.R’ failed Tests failed, dumping logs. --- ./nlme-tests/anova.gls.Rout.fail ---------------------------------------- R version 4.5.2 (2025-10-31) -- "[Not] Part in a Rumble" Copyright (C) 2025 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > ## Example of scoping problem. > ## Originally from a report by Markus Jantti: > ## https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-November/081382.html > library(nlme) > data(Ovary) > ## stolen from example(anova.gls) > # AR(1) errors within each Mare > ## tolerance increased for flang (was 6e-6) > fm1 <- gls(follicles ~ sin(2*pi*Time) + cos(2*pi*Time), Ovary, + correlation = corAR1(form = ~ 1 | Mare)) > int1 <- intervals(fm1) > ## no longer print attr(,"label"), PR#18196 : > writeLines(intOut <- capture.output(int1)) Approximate 95% confidence intervals Coefficients: lower est. upper (Intercept) 10.908531 12.2163982 13.5242656 sin(2 * pi * Time) -4.044019 -2.7747122 -1.5054050 cos(2 * pi * Time) -2.272201 -0.8996047 0.4729919 Correlation structure: lower est. upper Phi 0.668414 0.7532079 0.8186747 Residual standard error: lower est. upper 3.974642 4.616172 5.361248 > stopifnot({ + length(grep(',"label"', intOut, fixed=TRUE)) == 0 + all.equal(int1$corStruct["Phi",], + c(lower=0.66842829, est.=0.753207889, upper=0.81866619), + tol = 1e-5)# 7e-6 needed for flan + all.equal(as.vector(int1$sigma), + c(3.9747061, 4.61617157, 5.361161), tol = 1e-5) + }) Error: { .... is not TRUE --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I got luck, I tried to compile with gcc's flag -ffp-contract=false, the check then passed. Question 1 : Is it known? I don't have other aarch64 boards at hand (this one is rk3399 based). Question 2 : If I build nlme with this flag and other packages without it, should I expect problems? I am asking because I am trying to upgrade the package definition in my gnu/linux distribution (Guix) in order to support aarch64 (tests being required to pass). Thank you! Yarl ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
