[Rd] possible bug? (PR#9285)

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 10/10/2006 12:58 PM, richj at essex.ac.uk wrote:
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> I use the FEAR package available from=20
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> http://www.clemson.edu/economics/faculty/wilson/

You should contact Prof. Wilson-- this is a bug in his package, not in 
R.  Perhaps all that is needed is for it to be re-built in 2.4.0, but 
you'll need the package source for that.  As far as I could see (in a 
very cursory examination) this is not available on his web site.

Duncan Murdoch

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> which works perfectly in Rv2.2.0; after installing from a local zip and
> loading I find:
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> USING R version 2.2.0
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>> local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =3D TRUE)))
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> + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=3DTRUE)})
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> Loading required package: KernSmooth
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> KernSmooth 2.22 installed
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> Copyright M. P. Wand 1997
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> FEAR (Frontier Efficiency Analysis with R) 0.913 installed
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> Copyright Paul W. Wilson 2005
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>>
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> and everything works well.
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> 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).
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> USING R version 2.4.0
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>> local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =3D TRUE)))
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> + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=3DTRUE)})
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>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
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> package 'FEAR' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> 
> updating HTML package descriptions
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>> local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =3D TRUE)))
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> + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=3DTRUE)})
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> Loading required package: KernSmooth
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> KernSmooth 2.22 installed
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> Copyright M. P. Wand 1997
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> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :=20
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>         unable to load shared library
> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-24~1.0/library/FEAR/libs/FEAR.dll':
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>   LoadLibrary failure:  The specified procedure could not be found.
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> Error in library(pkg, character.only =3D TRUE) :=20
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>         .First.lib failed for 'FEAR'
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> Is this a bug in R version 2.4.0 and is there a fix?
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> *************************
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>  Prof J Richmond
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>  Department of Economics
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>  University of Essex
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>  Colchester CO4 3SQ
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>  United Kingdom
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>  Tel: +44-(0)1206-872769
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>  FAX: +44-(0)1206-872724
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>  email: richj at essex.ac.uk
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