Admittedly this is a rather crytic message but it means that the algorithm in dgesdd for determining the singular values did not converge. From the Lapack documentation for dgesdd
INFO (output) INTEGER = 0: successful exit. < 0: if INFO = -i, the i-th argument had an illegal value. > 0: DBDSDC did not converge, updating process failed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am trying to use prcomp and I am getting this error: > > > p <- prcomp(xtr, retx = TRUE, center = TRUE, scale = TRUE, tol = NULL) > Error in La.svd(x, nu, nv, method) : error code 17 from Lapack routine > dgesdd > > dim(xtr) > [1] 301 2439 > > Does it mean that the matrix is to big ? ______________________________________________ [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