[R] Running MCMCpack

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 4/5/2007 10:22 AM, Thomas Christin wrote:
> Hi there,
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> I am running MCMCpack (MCMCirt1d model) on some files (26 items x about 800
> – 1200 individuals).
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> I have a problem. When I am working on “big” files, the R program crashes.
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> More precisely I got the following Microsoft Warning: 
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> Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
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> Runtime Error!
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> Program: C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.1\bin\Rgui.exe
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> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
> way. Please contact the application’s support team for more information.

That message doesn't really give enough information to tell anything. 
Could you please do the following:

1.  Try the current alpha release of 2.5.0.  There have been patches to 
2.4.1 that may have fixed the bug, if it's an R bug and not an MCMCpack bug.

2.  If you still get the crashes, put together a minimal example to 
trigger them.  For example, generate random data of the right size and 
give a minimal set of commands that cause the crash.  If I can reproduce 
the crash I can probably locate the cause, but without that it's nearly 
hopeless.

Duncan Murdoch
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> I click on OK and R close down.
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> Do you know how I could help my R program to run MCMC on my files?
> (memory.limit is already set to (4*1024-1))
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> Many thanks and best greetings from Zurich (sorry, my german is rather
> poor).
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> Thomas
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> Adresse / Address
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> Thomas Christin
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> Institut für Politikwissenschaft
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> Universität Zürich
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> Tel. (+41) 44 634 51 56
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> Fax. (+41) 44 634 50 98
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> Email :  <mailto:christin at pwi.unizh.ch> christin at pwi.unizh.ch
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