On Aug 20, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Berend Hasselman wrote:

> 
> On 19-08-2011, at 22:06, Yan Zhou wrote:
> 
>> Dear all, 
>> 
>> I have a problem with R 2.31-patched from http://R.research.att.com/. I am 
>> using Lion 10.7.1
>> 
>> I did a fresh install of R and I checked that the BLAS library is linked to 
>> vecLib. However the following simple code halt on my machine.
>> 
>>      a <- matrix(rnorm(640 * 640), ncol = 640)
>>      b <- eigen(a)
>> 
>> This should take less than a second. However after an hour R is still 
>> halted. I tried a few more times it is reproducible on my machine.
>> 
>> I then built R my self, linked to vecLib, and using Lion's system default 
>> tools. The build passed check and the code above runs without a problem.
>> 
>> I am not sure what is wrong here.
>> 
>> The machine I am using is a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro 15", Core i7 2.66GHz.
>> 
>> Does anyone has the same problem or it is that there's something wrong with 
>> my machine only?
> 
> I have tried this on my MacBook Air 2011 (1.6Ghz i5, 4Gb memory, 128Gb flash) 
> and Mac OS X 10.7.1
> Using R 2.13.1 of 2011-07-08.
> 
> The problem occurs when running R 64 bit.
> The 32 bit R doesn't have the problem.
> 
Em, I tried it for 32 bit too, it runs fine. I guess it may be a linking 
problem. 

Yan

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