Simon and the other developers of the wonderful R.Gui for the  Mac,

The following code (anything using mvtnorm) reliably crashes R (under development) when running from the GUI, but not when running from the X11 window or under R-Studio.


I reported this several months ago but was told to wait for a newer release. I believe I have the latest versions of R (unstable), the R GUI, and mvtnorm.

 library(mvtnorm)
 sessionInfo()


R Under development (unstable) (2011-07-08 r56336)
Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] mvtnorm_0.9-9991 psych_1.0.99
 qmvnorm(.95,sigma=diag(2),tail="both")

 *** caught bus error ***
address 0x0, cause 'non-existent physical address'

Traceback:
1: .Fortran("mvtdst", N = as.integer(n), NU = as.integer(df), LOWER = as.double(lower), UPPER = as.double(upper), INFIN = as.integer(infin), CORREL = as.double(corrF), DELTA = as.double(delta), MAXPTS = as.integer(x$maxpts), ABSEPS = as.double(x$abseps), RELEPS = as.double(x$releps), error = as.double(error), value = as.double(value), inform = as.integer(inform), PACKAGE = "mvtnorm") 2: probval.GenzBretz(algorithm, n, df, lower, upper, infin, corr, corrF, delta)
 3: probval(algorithm, n, df, lower, upper, infin, corr, corrF, delta)
4: mvt(lower = lower, upper = upper, df = 0, corr = corr, delta = mean, algorithm = algorithm, ...) 5: pmvnorm(lower = low, upper = upp, mean = args$mean, corr = args$corr, sigma = args$sigma, algorithm = algorithm)
 6: f(upper, ...)
 7: uniroot(pfct, interval = interval)
 8: qmvnorm(0.95, sigma = diag(2), tail = "both")


Good luck and thanks for all the great work.

Bill

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