R 2.12.0 problems with Windows XP 32-bit binary installer
Re-installing PolynomF did fix that problem, though there are now others, namely R under ESS does not work. It bombs out with a curious message about text being read-only. For me this is an equally serious problem, but that's another mailing list. You may wish to be aware of it, though. Bill. -----Original Message----- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, 18 October 2010 4:20 PM To: Hodgess, Erin Cc: Duncan Murdoch; Venables, Bill (CMIS, Cleveland); r-devel at r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] R 2.12.0 problems with Windows XP 32-bit binary installer
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
I found the Rgui.exe under directory R\R-2.12.0\bin\i386.
Please read the CHANGES file: this is the first item for 2.12.0. I don't believe it is related to Bill's problem. The latter looks like a package installed for R < 2.12.0 (also covered in the first item of CHANGES), but without the exact message we cannot be sure. (For the record, Mac OS X has 'fat' binaries, but R does not use them for compiled code in packages - it used subdirectories just as on Windows.)
Thanks, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, PhD Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
________________________________ From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com] Sent: Sun 10/17/2010 7:53 PM To: Bill.Venables at csiro.au Cc: Hodgess, Erin; r-devel at r-project.org Subject: Re: R 2.12.0 problems with Windows XP 32-bit binary installer Bill.Venables at csiro.au wrote: I am having a problem with the installed R 2.12.0 on 32-bit Windows XP machine using the binary version. The installer I am using is R-2.12.0-win.exe . The problem I have is that some of my installed packages will not load, in particular PolynomF, which has a pre-compiled .dll. Other packages such as SOAR, which is pure R, attach and work without a hitch. The error message I am getting when trying to load PolynomF is a question whether or not the package has been compiled for the present architecture. (This package works without a hitch on R-2.11.1, for example.) Is there any significance in the name of the installer now including just "win" rather than "win32", as it was in the last release? Is it the case that all packages will have to be re-built for the present release? Generally packages do need to be rebuilt for new versions of R (other than patch releases, where only the last digit changes). R 2.12.0 supports both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows in the same installation, and since Windows doesn't have MacOS-like "universal" binaries, that means binaries need to be put in the right place. Generally that's an i386 subdirectory for 32 bit, and an x64 directory for 64 bit. I don't know why a 32 bit DLL wouldn't work with 32 bit R 2.12.0, but if it was installed for 2.11.1, it might not be in the right place. Duncan Murdoch [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
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