Several people have reported hanging when using garch() from tseries under
Rgui (Windows), as well as from other packages using Fortran I/O.
We will have a revised tseries that does not suffer from the problem
shortly, but here is a generic workaround: set the environment variable
GFORTRAN_STDOUT_UNIT to -1 before running R (critically before using any
package or module such as Lapack, BLAS ... that uses Fortran)
One simple way to do this is to have
if(.Platform$GUI == "Rgui") {
Sys.setenv(GFORTRAN_STDOUT_UNIT = "-1")
Sys.setenv(GFORTRAN_STDERR_UNIT = "-1")
}
in your ~/.Rprofile file. The second line is not needed for tseries but
could be needed for other programs. This will be in R-devel and R-patched
shortly.
Note that Fortran output is still lost: this is just a palliative measure
and the real fix for tseries generates the desired output.
(I had to read through the libgfortran to find this: it is confusing that
Windows I/O is done by a file named unix.c!)
--
Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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