Ablation() error

[ThomasF59]

Hello, 
I'm using the ablation function, but I have an issue ( I'm using version 3.6 not the last because on a cluster used by others). When I run the command, I use a logFile generated by the same version. Then it executes runs (none of them crash), as soon as all first runs have finished, irace returns that I don't understand:

After I get that : 

 ablog <- ablation(iraceResults, seed=1,ablationLogFile="tmp.RDa")
# 2024-03-06 20:19:44 CET: Starting ablation from 1 to 1331
# Seed: 1
batchmode 
sge,pbs,torque,slurm,htcondor 
# Source configuration (row number is ID):
  TimeMove RoomMove RoomsStabilityMove MwMove LMove HeuristicPerLoop Sep1
1        1        1                  1      1     1                3    _
  Accept_Criter_1 End_Criter_1 Sep4 MaxIdle UpperBoundRate CoolRateBound
1               1            0    _       5             NA          <NA>
  LowerBoundRate InitTemp CoolRateTemp CoolScheduleTemp ReheatRate TL_Rate Sep2
1             NA       NA           NA               NA         NA      NA    _
  Accept_Criter_2 End_Criter_2 Sep3 Accept_Criter_3 End_Criter_3 MaxIdle_2
1               2            2    _               3            3        NA
  UpperBoundRate_2 CoolRateBound_2 LowerBoundRate_2 InitTemp_2 CoolRateTemp_2
1             1.15   0.99999985714              0.9         NA             NA
  CoolScheduleTemp_2 ReheatRate_2 TL_Rate_2 MaxIdle_3 UpperBoundRate_3
1                 NA           NA        NA        NA               NA
  CoolRateBound_3 LowerBoundRate_3 InitTemp_3 CoolRateTemp_3 CoolScheduleTemp_3
1            <NA>               NA          3           0.82                  7
  ReheatRate_3 TL_Rate_3
1           10        49
# Target configuration (row number is ID):
     TimeMove RoomMove RoomsStabilityMove MwMove LMove HeuristicPerLoop Sep1
1331        1        0                  1      0     1                3    _
     Accept_Criter_1 End_Criter_1 Sep4 MaxIdle UpperBoundRate CoolRateBound
1331               2            2    _      NA           1.86 0.99999985714
     LowerBoundRate InitTemp CoolRateTemp CoolScheduleTemp ReheatRate TL_Rate
1331           0.79       NA           NA               NA         NA      NA
     Sep2 Accept_Criter_2 End_Criter_2 Sep3 Accept_Criter_3 End_Criter_3
1331    _               2            2    _               0            0
     MaxIdle_2 UpperBoundRate_2 CoolRateBound_2 LowerBoundRate_2 InitTemp_2
1331        NA              3.3   0.99999985714             0.86         NA
     CoolRateTemp_2 CoolScheduleTemp_2 ReheatRate_2 TL_Rate_2 MaxIdle_3
1331             NA                 NA           NA        NA        12
     UpperBoundRate_3 CoolRateBound_3 LowerBoundRate_3 InitTemp_3
1331               NA            <NA>               NA         NA
     CoolRateTemp_3 CoolScheduleTemp_3 ReheatRate_3 TL_Rate_3
1331             NA                 NA           NA        NA
# 2024-03-06 20:19:44 CET: Executing source and target configurations on the given instances (31)...
Erreur : == irace == isTRUE(all.equal(configurations.id, sapply(experiments, getElement,  is not TRUE

    "id.configuration"))) is not TRUE
5: capture.output(traceback(6))
4: irace.internal.error(msg)
3: irace.assert(isTRUE(all.equal(configurations.id, sapply(experiments, 
       getElement, "id.configuration"))))
2: execute.evaluator(experiments, scenario, target.output, src.configuration)
1: ablation(iraceResults, seed = 1, ablationLogFile = "tmp.RDa")

[MLopez-Ibanez]

Hi Thomas,

I would need the 'irace.Rdata' file. If you have a 'tmp.RDa' or a "iracedump.rda" file that would be useful as well.

[MLopez-Ibanez]

You say you are using version 3.6, but the latest version in CRAN is 3.5. Are you installing from CRAN or from git?

[ThomasF59]

Here is the zip of my Rda file

ezyzip.zip

[ThomasF59]

It was already installed but when I do packageVersion("irace"), it is written 3.5 so CRAN I think , common installed

[MLopez-Ibanez]

Would it possible for you to test with the version in git? I have fixed lots of bugs and made a lot of improvements. To install open the R console and type:

    install.packages("devtools")
    devtools::install_github("MLopez-Ibanez/irace")

Pay attention to where it is installed. There you can find the folder bin where the ablation executable is. To make sure you are running the git version, you can do ~/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/irace/bin/ablation --version (the path will be different for you). The git version will be something like 3.5.1.9000.XXXX.

[ThomasF59]

I tried but unfortunately the ubuntu cluster version is so old that R can't be updated and therefore no devtools.
But it doesn't matter, I'll do it manually, using the github code. Generating the configurations to be tested will greatly speed up the work.

[MLopez-Ibanez]

Please let me know how it goes. If there is a bug, I am very interested in fixing it. But if the bug is already fixed in git, there are so many changes that I am unlikely to backport it to 3.5. I would like to release the next irace version soon.

[MLopez-Ibanez]

By the way, if the R version in your cluster is at least 3.6, you download the files from git to a folder irace/ and then install the package with

R CMD build --no-build-vignettes irace/
R CMD INSTALL irace_3.5.1.9000.tar.gz