I just upgraded to R 2.15.1, and I am getting a segmentation fault when using the rWishart function (from the stats package) to sample moderately-size matrices.
Here is the output when I run R within gdb. 720 appears to be the dimensionality cut-off. Anything smaller works fine. Anything larger crashes. > x=rWishart(1,700,diag(700)) // this works > x=rWishart(1,720,diag(720)) Error: C stack usage is too close to the limit > x=rWishart(1,722,diag(722)) Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. Reason: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at address: 0x00007fff5f3fff88 0x00007fff88b9c68b in __vfprintf () (gdb) bt #0 0x00007fff88b9c68b in __vfprintf () #1 0x00007fff88b9c18e in vfprintf_l () #2 0x00007fff88ba52d0 in printf () #3 0x0000000100198619 in Rstd_WriteConsoleEx ( buf=<value temporarily unavailable, due to optimizations>, len=<value temporarily unavailable, due to optimizations>, otype=<value temporarily unavailable, due to optimizations>) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/unix/sys-std.c:963 #4 0x00000001001497b7 in REvprintf (format=0x100253820 "%s", arg=0x7fff5f4029f0) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/printutils.c:813 #5 0x0000000100149a02 in REprintf ( format=<value temporarily unavailable, due to optimizations>) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/printutils.c:698 #6 0x0000000100099e45 in verrorcall_dflt (call=0x10080db78, format=0x10025b9d8 "C stack usage is too close to the limit", ap=0x7fff5f408cc0) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/errors.c:656 #7 0x000000010009a86e in Rf_errorcall (call=0x10080db78, format=0x10025b9d8 "C stack usage is too close to the limit") at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/errors.c:698 #8 0x000000010009c95c in R_CheckStack () at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/errors.c:93 #9 0x0000000102704e80 in R_rWishart () #10 0x000000010007af0c in do_dotcall (call=0x102f63710, ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- op=<value temporarily unavailable, due to optimizations>, args=<value temporarily unavailable, due to optimizations>, env=<value temporarily unavailable, due to optimizations>) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/dotcode.c:543 #11 0x00000001000a128f in bcEval ( body=<value temporarily unavailable, due to optimizations>, rho=0x103df1140, useCache=<value temporarily unavailable, due to optimizations>) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/eval.c:4442 #12 0x00000001000aa1f5 in Rf_eval (e=0x102f63748, rho=0x103df1140) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/eval.c:397 #13 0x00000001000af5d1 in Rf_applyClosure (call=0x103df0b58, op=0x102f62470, arglist=0x103df0df8, rho=0x10085b6a8, suppliedenv=0x10085b6e0) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/eval.c:859 #14 0x00000001000aa402 in Rf_eval (e=0x103df0b58, rho=0x10085b6a8) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/eval.c:510 #15 0x00000001000ad705 in do_set (call=0x103df0c38, op=0x100832030, args=0x103df0c00, rho=0x10085b6a8) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/eval.c:1715 #16 0x00000001000aa4ec in Rf_eval (e=0x103df0c38, rho=0x10085b6a8) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/eval.c:466 #17 0x00000001000e3822 in Rf_ReplIteration (rho=0x10085b6a8, savestack=0, browselevel=<value temporarily unavailable, due to optimizations>, ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- state=0x7fff5fbfe7d0) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/main.c:256 #18 0x00000001000e3b11 in R_ReplConsole (rho=0x10085b6a8, savestack=0, browselevel=0) at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/main.c:305 #19 0x00000001000e4020 in run_Rmainloop () at ../../../../R-2.15.1/src/main/main.c:987 #20 0x0000000100000eeb in main () Here is my sessionInfo() output. I am running R on a brand new (as in, yesterday) Macbook Pro. This is the CRAN binary version. I did not link to an optimized BLAS on this computer (yet). However, I did try this on my office computer (Mac Pro) that I compiled from source, linking to Intel MKL, and that also crashes around k=722. > sessionInfo() R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > Anyway, since R is segfaulting on a brand new computer, I thought you would like to know. Michael
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