Re: [Gretl-users] gretl and R crash
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
Allin Cottrell