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

[James Chapman]

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:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 00:52
> To: James Chapman
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> 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.
> 
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