[R] R on Windows Hangs on Packages Built from Sources

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Wed, 5 May 2004 21:55:46 -0500, "James Chapman"
<james-chapman at uiowa.edu> 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.

...

>The system I'm having the problem on is as follows:
>AMD AthlonXP
>R 1.9.0 installed from binaries
>GCC 3.3.1

Is that the MinGW GCC?  The Cygwin build hasn't been tested recently
with R, but in the past it wouldn't work.

Duncan Murdoch