Re: [Gretl-devel] freeze with R foreign block: XPtest
Am 06.04.2016 um 16:35 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Am 06.04.2016 um 13:31 schrieb Sven Schreiber:
>> This is still an old R installation, 3.1.2, the same one (I
think) that
>> used to work "before".
>
> Well guess what, after upgrading the R installation to 3.2.4revised it
> works!
Interesting. I suppose this relates to a change I made last August (git
commit 1d108c, message "fix for access to interactive R on Windows").
That change was needed to support then-current R (see also the thread
"Gretl & R interaction problem" on gretl-users in July 2015). But it may
have broken things for earlier R. Getting R to work right when called
from another program is quite tricky, and updates to R can change what
works and what doesn't.
But the situation is still tricky. I have had a gretl crash with a
complex foreign/R block, and then after that crash the trivial
invokations again produced freezes. I have removed some R-related temp
stuff from gretl's dotdir and also removed and reinstalled R, and the
simple examples now seem to work again. Let's see about the more complex
cases...
cheers,
sven