[Rd] Re: (PR#2504) User error in trying a non-CRAN site which is way old

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

The version on the master CRAN site is fine.  The version on that site is
over two years' old!

What has http://www.stat.unipg.it/stat/statlib/R/CRAN/ got to do with
R-bugs?  It is not part of CRAN.  Report problems to that site if you wish,
but don't waste the R-developers' time.  It is this sort of behaviour which
sometimes make me wish to withdraw all support from Windows R users.

Note that the rw-FAQ does point out that you should recompile packages from
source if you have problems, and that would have solved this for you, I
expect.

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 jussi.makinen@valtiokonttori.fi wrote:

> Full_Name: Jussi Mäkinen
> Version: 1.6.2
> OS: Win2000
> Submission from: (NULL) (193.210.145.2)
>
>
> I tried to download fracdiff from http://www.stat.unipg.it/stat/statlib/R/CRAN/
> but I got the messages box:
>
> The procedure entry point daxpy_ could not be located in the dynamic link
> library R.dll
>
> and the following lines to RGui:
>
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
>         unable to load shared library
> "C:/PROGRA~1/R/rw1062/library/fracdiff/libs/fracdiff.dll":
>   LoadLibrary failure:  The specified procedure could not be found.
> In addition: Warning message:
> The use of _ is deprecated: you will be warned only once per session
> Error in library(fracdiff) : .First.lib failed
>
> when trying to command library(fracdiff)
>
> INSTALL went without problems (I always got a message: "`pgks' does not exist:
> skipping", though. But the `pgks' still works in R)
>
> C:/PROGRA~1/R/rw1062/library/fracdiff/libs/fracdiff.dll seems to be in place and
> has size of 31,232 bytes.
>
> Running command dyn.load("C://PROGRA~1//R//rw1062//library//fracdiff//libs//fracdiff.dll")
> gives the same messages.
>
> I downloaded fracdiff from http://cran.at.r-project.org/ and it worked (same
> size 31,232 bytes).
>
> Thx. for great software,
>
> Jussi Mäkinen
>
> version
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    1
> minor    6.2
> year     2003
> month    01
> day      10
> language R
>
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