That may have been true in r51520, but we are at r51566 and that does work as documented AFAICS.

Note though that this is only a temporary workaround, and it will go away once repositories are rebuilt for 2.12.0, and simply bulding the packages from sources would have worked.

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Peter Ehlers wrote:

I realize that R-core must be busy with the imminent release of
2.11.0, so please consider this not urgent.

The advice for R-devel is always to try the latest version (preferably from SVN) and to wait a couple of days and try again if you find a problem, before reporting.

R-devel is particularly unstable at present as we work on merging the 32- and 64-bit Windows distributions. Unless you have a very good reason to use it, we suggest using 2.11.0 alpha etc until 2.11.0 is released.

The NEWS file for 2.12.0 (Windows-specific) says, in part:

You mean the CHANGES file?

 For now, 32-bit packages with compiled code built under
 2.{10,11}.x can be used, but this will be disabled before
 release.

For me, this doesn't work without a tweak. For example,

library(mvtnorm)
#Error: package 'mvtnorm' is not installed for 'arch=i386'

I tested a few (6 or 7) other randomly selected packages
(bitops, igraph, ...) before wising up and looking at the
recommended and automatically installed packages like
lattice, etc. I see that the 'libs' folder now has an
'i386' subfolder where the DDLs reside.

Making that change by hand fixes the 'problem'.

sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-03-31 r51520)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] mvtnorm_0.9-9

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.12.0

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University of Calgary

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