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List:       r-devel
Subject:    Re: [Rd] Bug on qr.coef when qr is created by a zero matrix with colnames and all y equals zero
From:       Martin Maechler <maechler () stat ! math ! ethz ! ch>
Date:       2018-05-24 15:44:40
Message-ID: 23302.56808.849660.344554 () stat ! math ! ethz ! ch
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> > > > > Kun Ren 
> > > > > on Sat, 19 May 2018 08:17:37 +0000 writes:

    > Dear maintainers,
    > I'm reporting a bug in qr.coef that mishandles the colnames of matrix. A \
minimal reproducible example is as follows:

    > x <- cbind(rep(0, 10), rep(0, 10))
    > y <- rep(0, 10)
    > q <- qr.default(x)
    > qr.coef(q, y)
    > [1] NA NA

    > If x has colnames, then qr.coef will end up with an error:

    > x <- cbind(x1 = rep(0, 10), x2 = rep(0, 10))
    > y <- rep(0, 10)
    > q <- qr.default(x)
    > qr.coef(q, y)
    > Error in qr.coef(q, y) : object 'pivotted' not found

    > This happens only when x any y are all zeros. I found this problem when I \
implement a qr-based wls which stops when all weights are zero and the x matrix has \
colnames.

    > A brief debug on qr.coef shows that when `nam` is not NULL, no branch of code \
leads to creating `pivotted` before using it finally. 

Dear Kun,

this is indeed a bug, and I will address it.

Thank you very much for the reprex (:= [repr]oducible [ex]ample)!

Best,
Martin Maechler

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