Re: [R] R crashing inconsistently within for loops

2012-12-30 Thread John
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:01:22 -0500 Steve Powers wrote: Two points: 1) You don't define "crash." Did the script simply hang, did R abruptly cease to run and exit to the OS, did the display freeze, did the OS and machine stop working? "Crashing" is not explanatory, nor is it descriptive of your

Re: [R] R crashing inconsistently within for loops

2012-12-28 Thread Ben Bolker
Steve Powers nd.edu> writes: > > Hello, > > This one has been bugging me for a long time and I have never found a > solution. I am using R version 2.15.1 but it has come > up in older versions of R I have used over the past 2-3 years. > > Q: Am I wrong to expect that R should handle hundreds

Re: [R] R crashing inconsistently within for loops

2012-12-28 Thread William Dunlap
From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf > Of Steve Powers > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 7:01 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] R crashing inconsistently within for loops > > Hello, > > This one has been bugging

Re: [R] R crashing inconsistently within for loops

2012-12-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Note though that the posting guide asked you not to use the word 'crash', as your audience has no idea what you mean by it. In some of the senses people use (e.g. when R reports an error in your code), you should expect R to 'crash'. On 28/12/2012 09:04, Jeff Newmiller wrote: You are not wro

Re: [R] R crashing inconsistently within for loops

2012-12-28 Thread Jeff Newmiller
You are not wrong to expect R to not crash. However, R (as most people use it) is not monolithic, and you have provided neither reproducible code nor sessionInfo() with the relevant packages loaded to help anyone interested in investigating the problem. You are the most likely person to be able

[R] R crashing inconsistently within for loops

2012-12-27 Thread Steve Powers
Hello, This one has been bugging me for a long time and I have never found a solution. I am using R version 2.15.1 but it has come up in older versions of R I have used over the past 2-3 years. Q: Am I wrong to expect that R should handle hundreds of iterations of the base model or statistical