Dear all, I am still trying to find out what goes wrong when I use ace (I get an 'NAs in foreign fuction call (arg3)' but when I go through it with debug there seem no data to be missing). I had some errors (see at end of message) while installing 'acepack'. Do you think it is possible that these lead to the fact, that simple problems run ok but larger problems result in an error that R sees as there being NAs? Does anyone know how to go around this? Can I set the flags for g77 differently? Could this be a problem that I am not using the most recent R version (I delayed upgrading because I thought I might finish the current project before it but if this is suspicious I go for the most recent version now). Any pointers or ideas are appreciated. Regards, Lorenz g77 -O2 -fpic -c ace.f -o ace.o ace.f: In subroutine `mace': ace.f:322: warning: 590 format( 15h0eigensolution i2, 1h:) ^ Missing comma in FORMAT statement at (^) ace.f:323: warning: 600 format( 15h eigensolution i2, 23h r**2 = 1 - e**2 =g12.4) ^ Missing comma in FORMAT statement at (^) ace.f:323: warning: 600 format( 15h eigensolution i2, 23h r**2 = 1 - e**2 =g12.4) ^ Missing comma in FORMAT statement at (^) ace.f:324: warning: 610 format( 15h iteration i2, 23h r**2 = 1 - e**2 =g12.4) ^ Missing comma in FORMAT statement at (^) ace.f:324: warning: 610 format( 15h iteration i2, 23h r**2 = 1 - e**2 =g12.4) ^ Missing comma in FORMAT statement at (^) ace.f:327: warning: 640 format( 14h ierr=3: ty(.,i2, 20h) has zero variance.) ^ Missing comma in FORMAT statement at (^) ace.f:328: warning: 650 format( 11h ierr=4: l(i2, 18h) must be nonzero.) ^ Missing comma in FORMAT statement at (^) ace.f:329: warning: 660 format( 29h ierr=5: at least one l(1)-l(i2, 18h) must be nonze ^ Missing comma in FORMAT statement at (^) ace.f:331: warning: 670 format( 11h ierr=6: l(i2, 3h) =g12.4, 30h must be in the ra ^ Missing comma in FORMAT statement at (^) ace.f:331: warning: 670 format( 11h ierr=6: l(i2, 3h) =g12.4, 30h must be in the ra ^ Missing comma in FORMAT statement at (^) -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._