[Rcpp-devel] RcppEigen: Windows binary from CRAN crashes R, but not when installing from source.

[Henrik Singmann]

Hi Yixuan,

Unfortunately the problem seems to not be related to RStudio. It also appears in RGui. The error message is also different.

Cheers,
Henrik

Am 15.10.2014 um 21:13 schrieb Yixuan Qiu:
> Hi Henrik,
> There seems to be a similar problem here in my package, reported by https://github.com/yixuan/rARPACK/issues/4.
> The reporter said that the runtime error occured when using RStudio, but disappeared in RGui. Is this the same situation as yours?
>
>
> Best,
> Yixuan
>
> 2014-10-15 14:59 GMT-04:00 Henrik Singmann <henrik.singmann-RoHN3oFRSd0z1rruF8NHbrn0aRqv+C64G9Ur7JDdleE at public.gmane.org <mailto:henrik.singmann-RoHN3oFRSd0z1rruF8NHbrn0aRqv+C64G9Ur7JDdleE at public.gmane.org>>:
>
>     Dear list,
>
>     I have the following weird problem and would be really glad for any input:
>
>     The windows binary from CRAN for my package MPTinR, which uses RcppEigen, leads to an "Assertion failed" error which crashes R with a simple example given below (which unfortunately is not part of the examples and henceforth not tested by CRAN).
>
>     Interestingly enough, the problem disappears when installing the package on Windows from source or when using Linux (Ubuntu). But it also appears when using a binary version of MPTinR from winbuilder (temporarily available here: http://win-builder.r-project.__org/h18PJ7B55VAq <http://win-builder.r-project.org/h18PJ7B55VAq>), R-devel and corresponding binary from CRAN, and I could replicate the error on a range of different Windows machines. The error also always disappears when installing from source. I am also extremely confident that this problem didn't exist in the past, I and others have used this functionality regularly with the CRAN windows binary.
>
>     ###### code starts #######
>     require(MPTinR)
>     data(d.broeder)
>     m.2htm <- system.file("extdata", "5points.2htm.model", package = "MPTinR")
>     get.mpt.fia(d.broeder, m.2htm)
>     ###### code ends #######
>
>     The complete error message is:
>
>     ###### error message starts #######
>     Assertion failed!
>
>     Program: C:\Program Files\RStudio\bin\x64\__rsession.exe
>     File: d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/lib/3.1/__RcppEigen/include/Eigen/src/__Core/ProductBase.h, Line 95
>
>     Expression: a_lhs.cols() == a_rhs.rows() && "invalid matrix product" && "if you wanted a coeff-wise or a dot product use the respective explicit functions"
>
>     This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
>     Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>     ###### error message ends #######
>
>     When adding such an example to the code and resubmitting it to winbuilder it now also crashes, see http://win-builder.r-project.__org/0ei38q0t48h2/00check.log <http://win-builder.r-project.org/0ei38q0t48h2/00check.log>
>     But again, when installing the same package on my machine from source it works.
>
>     Best,
>     Henrik
>
>     PS: A session info (without attaching MPTinR) is given below:
>
>     R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
>     Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
>     locale:
>     [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Switzerland.__1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Switzerland.__1252    LC_MONETARY=German___Switzerland.1252
>     [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                        LC_TIME=German_Switzerland.__1252
>
>     attached base packages:
>     [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
>     other attached packages:
>     [1] devtools_1.6
>
>     loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>     [1] fortunes_1.5-2 tools_3.1.1
>
>
>
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>     Universität Zürich, Schweiz
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