[Bioc-devel] GLAD fails to load on R v2.10.0 and Windows Vista

[Patrick Aboyoun]

Henrik,
This is more of a package maintainer documentation issue. The 
DESCRIPTION file for GLAD

https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/GLAD/DESCRIPTION

states there is a system requirement of GSL (GNU Scientific Library: 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl), but it doesn't state how to satisfy 
the requirement. If you download GSL and put the location of libgsl.dll 
in the Windows PATH environment variable, GLAD should load in R 2.10 
without issue.


Patrick


Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> FYI,
>
>   
>> library("GLAD")
>>     
>
> DIALOG: "This application has failed to start because libgsl.dll was not found.
> Re-install the application may fix this problem. [OK]"
>
> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>   unable to load shared library 'C:/Users/hb/R/win-library/2.10/GLAD/libs/GLAD.d
> ll':
>   LoadLibrary failure:  The specified module could not be found.
>
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'GLAD'
>
>   
>> sessionInfo()
>>     
> R version 2.10.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-06-10 r48749)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
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