Hi Chris,
Great bug report!
On 9 August 2009 at 11:51, Chris Sims wrote:
| On two laptops running 32-bit kubuntu, I have found that svd(), invoked
| within R 2.9.1 as supplied with the current ubuntu package, returns very
| incorrect results when presented with complex-valued input. One of the
| laptops is a Dell D620, the other a MacBook Pro. I've also verified the
| problem on a 32-bit desktop. On these same systems, R compiled from
| source provides apparently correct results, so long as the --with-blas
| option is not used or --with-blas is used and an atlas library compiled
| from source is specified as the blas. The blas that gives incorrect
| results is the ubuntu sse2 atlas package. On a 64-bit ubuntu desktop
What happens when you remove the libatlas-sse2 package and keep the
libatlas-base package?
On my 32bit Debian system, I only see incorrect results (as per your test
below) when libatlas3gf-sse2 is installed.
The Atlas package is undergoing a transition. The previous maintainer stepped
down, and Sylvestre Ledu (CC'ed) is almost done with new packages based on
Atlas 3.8.3 -- they are in the Alioth SVN if you want to take a peek. Now,
Sylvestre is currently travelling for a few weeks but this should get better
'real soon'.
Hth, Dirk
| system I find the svd() results are correct with the ubuntu packaged R
| as well as with R compiled on the machine.
|
| The error seems not to arise, at least sometimes, with simple 2x2
| complex matrices. To check for the error, run the following:
|
| a <- matrix(rnorm(16) + rnorm(16)*1i, 4)
| b <- svd(a)
| with(b, u %*% t(Conj(u)))
|
| The result should be an identity matrix, by the definition of the
| singular value decomposition.
|
| Below are example runs, first on the 64-bit system where results are
| correct, then on one of the 32-bit systems.
|
| > version
| _
| platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
| arch x86_64
| os linux-gnu
| system x86_64, linux-gnu
| status
| major 2
| minor 9.1
| year 2009
| month 06
| day 26
| svn rev 48839
| language R
| version.string R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
| > a <- matrix(rnorm(16) + 1i * rnorm(16),4)
| > a
| [,1] [,2] [,3]
| [1,] 1.064712-1.343633i -1.6787892-0.7356784i -1.3110026-1.7295312i
| [2,] -0.829329-1.538217i 0.6514795+0.8242854i 1.3948013-0.4340075i
| [3,] 2.241843+0.297037i 2.9147970+0.2397768i -0.5197081-0.5796579i
| [4,] 1.567566-1.154438i -1.0900313+0.0121055i 0.0141203+0.6139178i
| [,4]
| [1,] 1.344998+1.231298i
| [2,] -0.190861+1.817582i
| [3,] 1.855617-1.244282i
| [4,] -1.735007+0.725572i
| > b <- svd(a)
| > with(b, u %*% t(Conj(u)))
| [,1] [,2]
| [1,] 1.000000e+00+0.000000e+00i 9.971272e-18-1.092774e-16i
| [2,] 9.971272e-18+1.062857e-16i 1.000000e+00-0.000000e+00i
| [3,] -9.500311e-17+3.729126e-17i -1.319715e-16-3.354759e-16i
| [4,] 1.585713e-16+2.581553e-16i 2.988332e-17+1.814683e-16i
| [,3] [,4]
| [1,] -9.500311e-17-2.546774e-17i 1.585713e-16-2.644267e-16i
| [2,] -1.319715e-16+3.350337e-16i 2.988332e-17-1.820918e-16i
| [3,] 1.000000e+00-0.000000e+00i -2.445638e-16+1.528022e-16i
| [4,] -2.445638e-16-1.735266e-16i 1.000000e+00+0.000000e+00i
| >
|
| -----------------------------------------------------
| > version
| _
| platform i486-pc-linux-gnu
| arch i486
| os linux-gnu
| system i486, linux-gnu
| status
| major 2
| minor 9.1
| year 2009
| month 06
| day 26
| svn rev 48839
| language R
| version.string R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
| > a <- matrix(rnorm(16) + 1i * rnorm(16), 4)
| > a
| [,1] [,2] [,3]
| [1,] 1.4465327-1.4747010i 0.7291287-0.3789878i 1.1978147-0.2393877i
| [2,] 0.8557766-0.9561998i -1.8390624-0.2263745i 0.1601790+0.8254724i
| [3,] 1.1659289+1.3202786i 1.1182754-0.0327039i 0.9901992+0.5903004i
| [4,] -0.4728973-0.2885660i -0.2541130+1.5875047i -0.9362061+0.1858397i
| [,4]
| [1,] -0.5949982+1.2969862i
| [2,] 0.6272468+1.2662726i
| [3,] 0.6722278-0.7768301i
| [4,] 0.4064206+0.6788890i
| > b <- svd(a)
| > with(b, u %*% t(Conj(u)))
| [,1] [,2] [,3]
| [1,] 0.7429858-0.0000000i -0.0890804-0.1273023i -0.1145715-0.3955123i
| [2,] -0.0890804+0.1273023i 0.8251623+0.0000000i -0.0217231-0.2699445i
| [3,] -0.1145715+0.3955123i -0.0217231+0.2699445i 1.3072318-0.0000000i
| [4,] -0.1236460+0.0628505i 0.1937076-0.0101354i -0.1682549+0.0544654i
| [,4]
| [1,] -0.1236460-0.0628505i
| [2,] 0.1937076+0.0101354i
| [3,] -0.1682549-0.0544654i
| [4,] 1.0912424-0.0000000i
| >
|
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