R help - Nov 1999 - Crash when running functions from contributed packages

Hello all,

I am somewhat new to S-plus and would really appreciate any help you might
have on the following problem:

I installed S-plus (0.65.1) on a Sun box (Solaris) and it runs fine as far
as I can tell. I also installed the cluster and multiv contributed packages.
The problem I have is that I get a core dump everytime I try to run a
function in the contributed packages. This seems independent on the function
I try, be it clara, pca, or sammon.

Here is an example:

% R --vanilla < pca_test.R

R : Copyright 1999, The R Development Core Team
Version 0.65.1 Release (October 07, 1999)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type    "?license" or "?licence" for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type    "?contributors" for a list.

Type    "demo()" for some demos, "help()" for on-line help,
or
        "help.start()" for a HTML browser interface to help.
Type    "q()" to quit R.
> library(mva)
> library(multiv)
> x <- rbind(cbind(rnorm(200,0,8), rnorm(200,0,8)),
+            cbind(rnorm(300,50,8), rnorm(300,50,8)))
> pcax <- pca(x)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Any idea on how to fix this?

-Roland Carel
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Roland Carel, Ph. D.
NetGenics, Inc.
rcarel at netgenics.com
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"Carel, Roland" <rcarel at netgenics.com> writes:
> I am somewhat new to S-plus and would really appreciate any help you might
> have on the following problem:
> 
> I installed S-plus (0.65.1) on a Sun box (Solaris) and it runs fine as far
> as I can tell. 
Ummm - I think you mean you installed R (0.65.1) on a Sun box.

Although R and S-plus are both implementations of the S language, they
are different and I'm sure that MathSoft, Inc. would like people to
keep those differences in mind.
> I also installed the cluster and multiv contributed packages.
> The problem I have is that I get a core dump everytime I try to run a
> function in the contributed packages. This seems independent on the
function
> I try, be it clara, pca, or sammon.
Well I was about to say that it is easy to check the examples in the
multiv library but then I tried to do just that and failed.  (Fritz, I
know you are busy but is it possible/worthwhile cleaning up those
examples a bit so, for example, the data sets are made available
before they are used?)

If you find, Roland, that the multivariate routines in the "mva"
library can do what you want, you may have better luck with them.  For
example, try

library(mva)
example("prcomp")
example("princomp")
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