Thanks, Gad. Lisa's professor knows the glmnet authors, so we will forward this request directly to them. Take care!
Dan ________________________________ From: Gad Abraham <gabra...@csse.unimelb.edu.au> Cc: r-help@r-project.org; lp...@bu.edu Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 10:26:26 PM Subject: Re: [R] R segfaulting with glmnet on some data, not other Kamalic Dan wrote: > Hello R-help list, > > > I have a piece of code written by a grad student here at BU which will > segfault when using one data set, but complete just fine using another. Both > sets are just text files full of real numbers. > > It seems like a bug within R. It could be a bug within her data, but > again, her data is just a bunch of floats, so her data could be > triggering a bug within R. I have tried this with two different rpm packages > of R for Linux (R-2.8.0-1.rh5 and R-2.8.1-1.rh5) as well as a fresh build > that I just did of the prerelease R-beta_2009-04-02_r48271.tar.gz > I have also tried installing the absolute newest versions of > glmnet_1.1-3.tar.gz and Matrix_0.999375-23.tar.gz. In all cases, the exact > same error occurs. > [[elided Yahoo spam]] >From your traceback it seems it's not a bug in R itself, but in the package >glmnet. It's probably best to chase it up with the package authors since glmnet is not a base R package. -- Gad Abraham MEng Student, Dept. CSSE and NICTA The University of Melbourne Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia email: gabra...@csse.unimelb.edu.au web: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~gabraham [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
