See the rw-FAQ, specifically Q2.19. It is very likely some piece of rogue software on your machines.
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Kent Holsinger wrote: > I have a problem with nlme on Windows 2000, and I'm having a devil of a > time determining whether the problem is with my computer or with > something in R. I'm running v1.8.1 on a Dell Pentium III with 512MB of > RAM and all of the recommended Windows 2000 updates applied. > > If I use Rterm, I can run analyses with NLME to my heart's content. But > when I run Rgui, I encounter a floating point exception. To be concrete if I > > > library(nlme) > Loading required package: lattice > > data(Rail) > > lme(travel ~ 1, data = Rail, random = ~ 1 | Rail) > > (the first example in Pinheiro and Bates), R churns for a while and a > window pops up informing me of an application error. Specifically, "The > exception Floating-point division by zero. (0xc000008e) occurred in the > application at location 0x639b50ff." There error occurs every time. The > same analysis runs flawlessly in Rterm. > > To make it even stranger, I get the same error on a Toshiba Pentium > laptop (also with 512MB of memory, although I haven't tried the analyses > in Rterm on that machine). On that machine, I get a blue screen after > acknowledging the error. The laptop is a dual boot on which I run Linux > (Fedora Core 1). R works perfectly on it under Linux. > > I've downloaded and re-installed the binaries on both machines several > times, so I don't think I have a corrupted download. Any ideas on how to > diagnose (and solve) this problem would be greatly appreciated. > > Kent > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
