R devel - Mar 2011 - core Matrix package segfaulted on R CMD check --use-gct

Current core/Recommended Matrix package (0.999375-48) has been segfaulting
against R 2.13-alpha/2.14-trunk for the last week or so (since R-2.13 was
branched, when I started trying) when "run with R CMD check
--use-gct":

--------------
> pkgname <- "Matrix"
> source(file.path(R.home("share"), "R",
"examples-header.R"))
> gctorture(TRUE)
> options(warn = 1)
> library('Matrix')
Loading required package: lattice
Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'Matrix', details:
  call: fun(...)
  error: unprotected object (0x2768b18) encountered (was REALSXP)
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Matrix'
Execution halted
---------------

I traced to this because "R CMD check --use-gct snpStats" (both 1.1.13
and 1.1.12) segfaults with the same message, and before that, the snpMatrix
1.15.8.4 which includes some of David's newly written ld() ( which depends
on Matrix.)

If the Matrix package segfaults, David's new ld() isn't useable.

Can you provide the output from

sessionInfo()

so we can know the platform?  Also, did you configure R with
--enable-strict-barrier or set the C compilation flag
-DTESTING_WRITE_BARRIER?  I think that run-time error message can only
be thrown under those circumstances (not that it isn't an error, it's
just not checked for in other circumstances).

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung at
yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Current core/Recommended Matrix package (0.999375-48) has been segfaulting
against R 2.13-alpha/2.14-trunk for the last week or so (since R-2.13 was
branched, when I started trying) when "run with R CMD check
--use-gct":
>
> --------------
>> pkgname <- "Matrix"
>> source(file.path(R.home("share"), "R",
"examples-header.R"))
>> gctorture(TRUE)
>> options(warn = 1)
>> library('Matrix')
> Loading required package: lattice
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'Matrix', details:
> ?call: fun(...)
> ?error: unprotected object (0x2768b18) encountered (was REALSXP)
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Matrix'
> Execution halted
> ---------------
>
> I traced to this because "R CMD check --use-gct snpStats" (both
1.1.13 and 1.1.12) segfaults with the same message, and before that, the
snpMatrix 1.15.8.4 which includes some of David's newly written ld() ( which
depends on Matrix.)
>
> If the Matrix package segfaults, David's new ld() isn't useable.
>
>