Matrix package will not loead

Many thanks for your advice and assistance.

Sadly, I am unable to install "from source" as my operating environment does not have Rtools or a compiler.

Is there an old version compiled somewhere I can use ?

install.packages("H:\\Downloads\\Matrix_1.0-10.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type="source")

Installing package(s) into 'H:/R/win-library/2.15'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)
* installing *source* package 'Matrix' ...
** package 'Matrix' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Matrix'
* removing 'H:/R/win-library/2.15/Matrix'
Warning messages:
1: running command 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-215~1.1/bin/i386/R CMD INSTALL -l "H:/R/win-library/2.15"   "H:/Downloads/Matrix_1.0-10.tar.gz"' had status 1
2: In install.packages("H:\\Downloads\\Matrix_1.0-10.tar.gz", repos = NULL,  :
   installation of package 'H:/Downloads/Matrix_1.0-10.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status

install.packages("Matrix", type="source")

Installing package(s) into 'H:/R/win-library/2.15'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
trying URL 'http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/src/contrib/Matrix_1.0-9.tar.gz'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
   cannot open URL 'http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/src/contrib/Matrix_1.0-9.tar.gz'
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
   cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available,  :


-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: 13 November 2012 13:03
To: Duncan Murdoch
Cc: Uzuner, Tolga I; r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Matrix package will not loead

You will find the problem and solution in the list archives.

The current version of Matrix can be installed *from source* on R (>=
2.15.0), as it claims.  But if you install it on R >= 2.15.2 then it
uses features of 2.15.2 and hence can only be run on R >= 2.15.2. And
there was a warning about this ....

On 13/11/2012 12:38, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

On 12-11-13 7:06 AM, Uzuner, Tolga I wrote:

Dear Fellow R Users,

I am having a problem with the Matrix package, in Windows XP on  R
2.15.1 .

This is the only package where I experience this. I remove the package
first, re install, and then when trying to load, get a LoadLibrary
failure as below.

I've just installed a binary copy of Matrix 1.0-10 in R 2.15.2 patched,
and I get an error too on attaching it:  "The procedure entry point
Rf_copyListMatrix could not be located in the dynamic link library
R.dll."  I'm pretty sure that procedure is available in R.dll currently,
so I don't know what the real problem is.

The issue is if it is exported from R.dll, which only happened just
before 2.15.2.  Works for me with the Matrix binary package on the CRAN
master and both 2.15.2 and the current R-patched (which in any case
contains that version).

I have just rebuilt R, and the same package works fine.  So I'd suggest
that you download the latest R-patched from CRAN, and hopefully things
will be fine.

Duncan Murdoch

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Regards,
Tolga

remove.packages("Matrix")

Removing package(s) from 'H:/R/win-library/2.15'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)

install.packages("Matrix")

Installing package(s) into 'H:/R/win-library/2.15'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)
trying URL
'http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/Matrix_1.0-10.zip'

Content type 'application/zip' length 3289545 bytes (3.1 Mb)
opened URL
downloaded 3.1 Mb

package 'Matrix' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
          C:\Data\N048564\temp\RtmpoDC7HF\downloaded_packages

library("Matrix")

Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
    unable to load shared object
'H:/R/win-library/2.15/Matrix/libs/i386/Matrix.dll':
    LoadLibrary failure:  The specified procedure could not be found.

In addition: Warning message:
package 'Matrix' was built under R version 2.15.2
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Matrix'

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