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. To get R working under gretl's "foreign" mechanism I had
to add 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.2\bin\i386' to the PATH
manually (Computer/Properties/Advanced/Environment variables).
That wasn't necessary before; gretl attempts to put the right
PATH into the environment before starting R. I've added some
debugging statements to the current snapshot, so if you run
gretl with the --debug flag you should see something in a
console window about what gretl is trying to do with regard to
the R path.
Allin Cottrell