I assume this is specific to your installation of R-devel (R-2.4.0 "unstable"). If I use your 'out', hist(out^4, col = "gray") works just fine consistently.
Could it be a compiler / linker mismatch on your Mac? Also, can you run "under the debugger" 'R -d gdb' (from a commandline) ? This should allow a traceback ('backtrace', abbreviated 'bt' in "gdb") of the C call stack. Martin >>>>> "Robin" == Robin Hankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:46:17 +0100 writes: Robin> Hi Robin> I thought I'd pass one of my package through R CMD check with R-2.4.0 Robin> with the following result (it's clean under R-2.3.1): Robin> [snip] >> >> # histogram of the fourth power: >> hist(out^4, col="gray") Robin> *** caught bus error *** Robin> address 0x12, cause 'invalid alignment' Robin> Traceback: Robin> 1: sort(x, partial = c(half, half + 1)) Robin> 2: sum(sort(x, partial = c(half, half + 1))[c(half, half + 1)]) Robin> 3: stats::median(diff(breaks)) Robin> 4: hist.default(out^4, col = "gray") Robin> 5: hist(out^4, col = "gray") Robin> aborting ... Robin> Under R-2.4.0, hist(out^4) repeatably gives an error like that above. Robin> Here's a dput() of out: Robin> c(10.4975870476354, 10.3973239490546, 10.9079973318563, Robin> 10.9201457586087, Robin> 10.863164987001, 10.8092412328219, 10.3740979640666, 10.3933170416021, Robin> 10.1571361926693, 10.7231637475341, 10.8495903667896, 10.2760101321262, Robin> 10.3999724625721, 11.1422484374362, 10.1623400428855, 10.9139189812841, Robin> 11.1313700266654, 10.4214929867460, 10.9543767973144, 10.2925796047365, Robin> 10.3399040002101, 10.5080265067013, 10.4963598344302, 10.5694912655817, Robin> 10.9088365086950, 9.67007136377566, 10.4303159857457, 10.6734035266469, Robin> 10.3555432530979, 10.9738495753501, 10.3888850313651, 11.2210598170116, Robin> 10.8020906590915, 10.7391185468963, 10.3303267171864, 10.7176410493307, Robin> 10.3527634000890, 10.6331145125840, 10.7946862157461, 10.6147608946858, Robin> 9.85567630738787, 11.0289144282434, 10.742857648964, 10.866630627911, Robin> 10.5278318354308, 10.3553983376990, 10.7900270843436, 10.3467961125517, Robin> 10.5126782499258, 10.8575135939962, 10.9151746119094, 11.2000951011802, Robin> 10.4133108985045, 10.5265186993107, 10.7148111540688, 10.3722159808052, Robin> 10.1911424590529, 10.8375326158672, 10.2892046453081, 11.0159788575821, Robin> 10.2104834661186, 10.0718751926059, 11.5503607473136, 10.9134877529340, Robin> 11.3063246702428, 10.0682022386836, 10.6766007351429, 10.6029531885996, Robin> 10.3568338147980, 10.5246512104442, 10.9964827564484, 10.4826791470128, Robin> 10.3340980255556, 10.4201862775486, 10.6526293411458, 10.1270181743699, Robin> 10.7479561453406, 10.3223366380115, 10.6640317023258, 10.8816465650639, Robin> 10.2469734194448, 11.0595077832844, 10.6211764829084, 10.8387020014927, Robin> 10.3842712860829, 10.3288969420998, 11.1095936345021, 10.7755741380517, Robin> 10.8891163113089, 10.9239878986268, 10.4674437486482, 10.4494516106226, Robin> 10.6816375084280, 10.1609470064992, 10.6055689487767, 10.3759153410817, Robin> 10.4743618410399, 10.9932886540585, 10.2563007403496, 10.0821264920858, Robin> 10.7293259154111, 10.8834112318584, 10.5285102045021, 10.7068278466484, Robin> 10.9517121917501, 10.6249671128484, 10.8188751147001, 10.5327448695580, Robin> 10.7315642237059, 10.4996799637132) >> R.version Robin> _ Robin> platform powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0 Robin> arch powerpc Robin> os darwin8.7.0 Robin> system powerpc, darwin8.7.0 Robin> status Under development (unstable) Robin> major 2 Robin> minor 4.0 Robin> year 2006 Robin> month 07 Robin> day 09 Robin> svn rev 38523 Robin> language R Robin> version.string R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) Robin> (2006-07-09 r38523) >> Robin> -- Robin> Robin Hankin Robin> Uncertainty Analyst Robin> National Oceanography Centre, Southampton Robin> European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK Robin> tel 023-8059-7743 Robin> ______________________________________________ Robin> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list Robin> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel