Hi, Thanks, after I emailed the help list I figured I should try building R since then I would have a kit that should be able to build packages properly. I immediately realized, as you both pointed out, that I needed a MinGW GCC; I was using Cygwin's compiler.
I downloaded the ash source and got it to compile properly. Thanks for the information, James > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 00:52 > To: James Chapman > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] R on Windows Hangs on Packages Built from Sources > > It must be frustrating, but > > - that setup does work for other people > - I don't think we have ever seen a `hang' of that sort. > > I would try one of the packages on CRAN which does have a recent binary > compiled. (I tend to use ash to test, as it is small and uses Fortran.) > If that fails then you need a way to debug the `hang' (and you haven't > told us exactly where it is, so I can't suggest any). > > On Wed, 5 May 2004, James Chapman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am currently having the following problem with R 1.9.0. Any package > that > > contains C or Fortran code hangs after I have built it and load it into > R. > > I've tried this with RMySQL and udunits, originally I thought I had done > > something subtly wrong in configuring these packages; but I just had the > > same problem with a simple example R package that I wrote. I was able to > > build and load the package on a Linux system at school so I figure I've, > > hopefully, ruled out a programming problem on my part. > > > > The system I'm having the problem on is as follows: > > AMD AthlonXP > > R 1.9.0 installed from binaries > > GCC 3.3.1 > > Just checking -- gcc 3.3.3 for MinGW as in > > [c:/R/rw2000/src/gnuwin32]% gcc --version > gcc (GCC) 3.3.1 (mingw special 20030804-1) > > ? Someone sent me several messages recently, and it transpired was trying > to use the cygwin compilers. > > -- > 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
