That's because R-devel and R-patched have a workaround for a bug in the latest gcc: see the NEWS file.
On Sun, 30 May 2004, Al Piszcz wrote: > > I downloaded and built the development version > of R dated 30 May. make check, and prcomp > were successful. > > > > On Sun, 30 May 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 22:01:58 +0200 > > From: Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Al Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [R] prcomp help > > > > Al Piszcz wrote: > >> > >> Slackware 9.1, R 1.9.0, 2.54GHZ P4, 2GB RAM > >> > >> example(prcomp) never finishes > >> > >> > >>> example(prcomp) > >> > >> > >> prcomp> data(USArrests) > >> > >> prcomp> prcomp(USArrests) > >> > >> > >> ==== > >> > >> The following test also appears to hang. > >> > >>> a<-matrix(rnorm(100,mean=32,sd=31),10,10) > >>> b<-prcomp(a) > > > > Works on Windows and several other OSs. > > > > Do you have a local copy of prcomp() (which is different from the original > > one)? > > > > What happens if you start R with --vanilla and try again? > > > > What happened after > > make check > > during your R installation? make check should have reported an error here (or > > hang itself).... > > > > Uwe Ligges > > > > > > > > > >> > >> > >> > >> ==== > >> > >> What is the recommended debug approach? > >> > >> Thank you. > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> [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 > > > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > > -- 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
