We don't know from this what the `specified program' is, but it probably means that a DLL cannot be found on your path.
It is probable that your PATH is set up incorrectly, so please check with the R-admin manual extremely carefully. In particular, that you really do have a complete unpacked tools.zip at the head of your path and that you do not also have Cygwin on your path. On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, j. signorovitch wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone come across this difficulty using R-2.2.1 in Windows XP: > > when I try to run > > R CMD SHLIB mycode.c > > I get the response: > > "The system cannot execute the specified program." > > I've tried installing all windows updates, reinstalling R and putting > "R-2.2.1\bin" at the head of my path. > > Googling that error message leads to lots of stuff about *.manifest > files. The Rgui.exe.manifest etc. files are in my /bin directory. Really? *.manifest files need to be in the same directory as the executables they refer to, that's all. I think you have found hits related to Visual .NET, which is not in use. > Funny thing is I have been using SHLIB for ~2 years on this system, up > to several month ago, without difficulty. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
