Re: [Gretl-users] gretl and R crash

Am 27.12.2012 23:48, schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote: > >> On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Pindar wrote: >> >>> in order to perform a cluster analysis I tried the R connection with >>> 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.2\bin\i386\Rgui.exe' >>> and >>> 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.2\bin\i386\R.dll' >>> >>> gretl does send the data set, however when running >>> 'end foreign' gretl crashes with the message: "Fatal error: unable to >>> open >>> the base package"! >> I just tried gretl + R-2.15.2 on Windows 7. It looks as if >> something relevant has changed in the R setup since version 2.14. > I can now confirm this (and from googling, we're not the only ones > who are having problems). (This is a Windows-specific problem.) > > R version 2.15 breaks certain kinds of third party usage of the R > shared library. Apparently it's necessary to tell R where to find > its own bits and pieces at an earlier stage of the proceedings than > with R 2.14. I'll work on it. In the meantime the workaround is to > add the path to the directory containing Rlapack.dll into the PATH > environment variable. In a standard R installation this is likely to > be (for R 2.15.2): > > C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.2\bin\i386 Hi Allin, I found the environment variables, but there is no 'R' entry at all.