Thank you Dirk, Klint, and Rolf for your time and attention.
I tried booting off a flash drive loaded with (the most recent) Linux Mint
18.1, enabled a CRAN Ubuntu mirror as a software source, installed the latest R
from CRAN, and was unable to reproduce the issue.
La_version() gave me 3.6.0, and the output of system(paste("lsof -p",
Sys.getpid(), "| grep -iE '(blas|lapack)'")) also indicated that R was using
the 3.6.0 versions of liblapack.so and libopenblas.so
So, I agree that it looks like it was an issue with the shared libraries as
Martin suspected.
Before submitting this bug report, I had assumed that R uses its own versions
of these libraries by default, so I've learned something new as well.
Thanks Martin also for the troubleshooting tips on how to determine what
libraries are being used by R.
I'll update and close the report on the R Bugzilla tracker next.
Best Wishes,
--Ian
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From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org>
To: Klint Gore <kgo...@une.edu.au>
Cc: "r-sig-debian@r-project.org" <r-sig-debian@r-project.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Taking determinant of a matrix of NAs results in
intermittent memory corruption
On 19 January 2017 at 02:49, Klint Gore wrote:
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:dirk.eddelbuet...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Dirk Eddelbuettel
| > Sorry, what part of '14.04' is current?
| >
| > Ubuntu is at 16.10. And release 16.04, which as a LTS replaces the LTS
14.04 you use, also passes. Can you upgrade?
|
| That version of the openblas package is the latest currently available for
14.04 LTS from the official ubuntu repository. 14.04 LTS is "supported" by
Canonical until 2019.
Well but aren't you confusing or conflating two things here? I am only
harping on this as it is r-sig-debian. "Supported" by Canonical means that
should a security bug require an update to a component of your installation,
you may get it from their repo. No more, no less.
Otherwise, the focus is on _stability_ -- hence no changes whatsoever. [1]
Which in turn means old, known bugs like the one we are talking about here
will NOT get fixed. It is a trade-off: some people value the stability, some
people value the fixes and new features.
| Also, I'm just confirming that I can repeat it. It's not an issue for me as
it's never happened other than the contrived example. If someone brought it to
my attention, I'd probably follow your original though and ask them if they
really wanted the determinant of an unassigned matrix as it sounds like not a
useful thing to do. Using rnorm to initialise the matrix works fine.
|
| I'd suggest the OP pursue it with the linux mint people as it's directly
affecting him and it occurs in their "supported" version.
Agreed.
Dirk
[1] Eg the R version in 14.04 is forever fixed at version 3.0.2 as far as the
'official Ubuntu repository' is concerned.
|
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