On 12/16/2011 08:52 AM, Reinhard Seifert wrote:> Dear community,
>
> I encountered a very disturbing phenomenon today:
>
> When I try to fit any gam() with mgcv R aborts. I could not find any post
> regarding this in google, which mades in even more strange.
>
> I am using the latest Ubuntu, latest R and latest mgcv everything up to
> date. The crash occured too with the last mgcv 1.7-11.
>
> This is the output from the R shell:
>
> <pre>
>
> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
> Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
>> library(mgcv)
> This is mgcv 1.7-12. For overview type
'help("mgcv-package")'.
>> dat<- gamSim(1 , n=400 , dist="normal",scale = 2)
> Gu& Wahba 4 term additive model
>> gam( y ~ s(x0) , data = dat)
> Aborted
>
> </pre>
>
> I am using Ubuntu 11.10 - amd64, R version 2.14.0 and mgcv 1.7-12.
>
> any ideas?
>
> Reinhard
It works for me in Slackware 13.37 (64bit)
> library(mgcv)
This is mgcv 1.7-11. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
> dat <- gamSim(1 , n=400 , dist="normal",scale = 2)
Gu & Wahba 4 term additive model
> gam( y ~ s(x0) , data = dat)
Family: gaussian
Link function: identity
Formula:
y ~ s(x0)
Estimated degrees of freedom:
2.4812 total = 3.481196
GCV score: 13.66653
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.0 Patched (2011-11-29 r57769)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_US
[4] LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_US LC_MESSAGES=en_US
[7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] mgcv_1.7-11
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Matrix_1.0-2 grid_2.14.0 lattice_0.20-0 nlme_3.1-102
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Kevin E. Thorpe
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Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
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