On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > =20
Not a bug. Please contact the author of the non-CRAN, binary-only package, as requested in FAQ 9.2: "Bug reports on contributed packages should be sent first to the package maintainer, and only submitted to the R-bugs repository by package maintainers, mentioning the package in the subject line." > > =20 > > I use the FEAR package available from=20 > > =20 > > http://www.clemson.edu/economics/faculty/wilson/ > > =20 > > which works perfectly in Rv2.2.0; after installing from a local zip and > loading I find: > > =20 > > USING R version 2.2.0 > > =20 > > > local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =3D TRUE))) > > + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=3DTRUE)}) > > Loading required package: KernSmooth > > KernSmooth 2.22 installed > > Copyright M. P. Wand 1997 > > FEAR (Frontier Efficiency Analysis with R) 0.913 installed > > Copyright Paul W. Wilson 2005 > > > > > =20 > > and everything works well. > > =20 > > On the other hand with R version 2.4.0, although the package installs > properly from the local zip, it does not load correctly (the same > problem occurs with the patched version of 2.4.0). > > =20 > > =20 > > USING R version 2.4.0 > > =20 > > > local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =3D TRUE))) > > + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=3DTRUE)}) > > > utils:::menuInstallLocal() > > package 'FEAR' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > updating HTML package descriptions > > > local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =3D TRUE))) > > + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=3DTRUE)}) > > Loading required package: KernSmooth > > KernSmooth 2.22 installed > > Copyright M. P. Wand 1997 > > Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :=20 > > unable to load shared library > 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-24~1.0/library/FEAR/libs/FEAR.dll': > > LoadLibrary failure: The specified procedure could not be found. > > Error in library(pkg, character.only =3D TRUE) :=20 > > .First.lib failed for 'FEAR' > > =20 > > =20 > > =20 > > Is this a bug in R version 2.4.0 and is there a fix? > > =20 > > =20 > > =20 > > ************************* > > Prof J Richmond > > Department of Economics > > University of Essex > > Colchester CO4 3SQ > > United Kingdom > > Tel: +44-(0)1206-872769 > > FAX: +44-(0)1206-872724 > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ************************* > > =20 > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
