I have a question concerning the new Windows toolchain for R >= 2.14.2.
When trying out my package 'pracma' on the win-builder development version
it will stop with the following error message:
> f3 <- function(x, y) sqrt((1 - (x^2 + y^2)) * (x^2 + y^2 <= 1))
> dblquad(f3, -1, 1, -1, 1) # 2.094395124 , i.e. 2/3*pi , err = 2e-8
Warning in sqrt((1 - (x^2 + y^2)) * (x^2 + y^2 <= 1)) : NaNs produced
Warning in sqrt((1 - (x^2 + y^2)) * (x^2 + y^2 <= 1)) : NaNs produced
Error in integrate(function(y) f(x, y), ya, yb, subdivisions = subdivs, :
non-finite function value
Calls: dblquad ...
<Anonymous> -> f -> do.call -> mapply -> <Anonymous> -> integrate
Execution halted
** running examples for arch 'x64' ... ERROR
Running examples in 'pracma-Ex.R' failed
This probably means that the following expression got negative for some
values x, y:
(1 - (x^2 + y^2)) * (x^2 + y^2 <= 1)
It appears to be an often used trick in numerical analysis. One advantage is
that a function using it is immediately vectorized while an expression such
as, e.g., "max(0, 1 - (x^2 + y^2))" is not.
The example runs fine on Debian Linux and Mac OS X 32-/64-bit architectures.
In my understanding the approach is correct and, as said above, often used in
numerical applications.
Can someone explain to me why this fails for the Windows 64-bit compiler and
what I should use instead. Thanks.
Hans Werner Borchers
ABB Corporate Research
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