Problem with dyn.load in R1.6.1
No deliberate change (it _was_ a patch release). However, this is a not uncommon occurence with code that is incorrect and corrupts memory or the stack: sometimes you get away with it on some platforms. We found that with a version of the tseries package: it worked on 1.6.0 but not 1.6.1 on Windows. (The problem was a .C call with one too few arguments.)
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Rob Hyndman wrote:
I've been successfully using a dll via dyn.load() with R1.6.0 for Windows, but when I try it under R1.6.1 it manages to crash the program completely. Has there been a change in how R1.6.1 handles dynamic loading? I couldn't spot any such changes in the documentation. This problem occurred on two different machines, and both run the code under R1.6.0 without a problem.
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