9:24 a.m.
Hi,
First of all it seems that currently the default setting is to use libr
and not rterm.exe if avaiable. I appreciate that a lot! :)
But there are two problems:
On my system the "Rsrc" file created for R contains two sink(<file>)
commands at the beginning of the file and just one sink() command at the
end. So after several foreign blocks, R fails with the error message
"sink stack is full". The error message appears only when using the
gretl command client. gretlw32 simply stops executing the script saying
"external command failed".
A second problem is that sometimes R complaints that it cannot find its
dlls. This seems to be well known to other users of libr already, see:
http://code.env.duke.edu/projects/mget/ticket/203.
I added the R-bin directory to my path environment variable and now the
problem is gone. I don't know whether we should add a workaround for
this problem, but if not we should at least give a hint in a helpfile
somewhere.
chris
5:32 p.m.
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, chris wrote:
First of all it seems that currently the default setting is to
use libr and not rterm.exe if avaiable. I appreciate that a lot!
:)
Glad you like, and thanks for suggesting it in the first place.
After working the bugs out, it seemed clear that using the library
was a superior approach.
But there are two problems:
On my system the "Rsrc" file created for R contains two sink(<file>)
commands at the beginning of the file and just one sink() command at the
end...
Oops, duplicating the "sink" call was a Windows-specific bug.
Now fixed in CVS and snapshot, I think.
A second problem is that sometimes R complaints that it cannot find
its
dlls. This seems to be well known to other users of libr already, see:
http://code.env.duke.edu/projects/mget/ticket/203.
I added the R-bin directory to my path environment variable and now the
problem is gone. I don't know whether we should add a workaround for
this problem, but if not we should at least give a hint in a helpfile
somewhere.
Ah. Yes, we should do something about that. Maybe automatically
add the R-bin dir to the PATH if it's not already there. This is
a Windows-specific problem, I take it?
Allin.
7:24 p.m.
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, chris wrote:
> A second problem is that sometimes R complaints that it cannot find its
> dlls. This seems to be well known to other users of libr already, see:
> http://code.env.duke.edu/projects/mget/ticket/203...
Ah. Yes, we should do something about that. Maybe automatically
add the R-bin dir to the PATH if it's not already there. This is
a Windows-specific problem, I take it?
I've added a function maybe_print_R_path_addition() in
lib/src/gretl_win32.c, but I'm not making use of it yet.
I have a few questions before I activate this code. Is it overkill
to add the R "bin", "modules" and "lib" directories to
PATH? Can
we get away with just adding the "bin" directory? And if we use
this, should it go into the Rsrc file?
Allin.
8:30 p.m.
Thanks for the fast help. I think adding the bin directory is sufficient. I have attached
a sample script which provokes the error.
chris
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Betreff: Re: [Gretl-users] problems with gretl libr foreign blocks under win32
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, chris wrote:
> A second problem is that sometimes R complaints that it cannot find its
> dlls. This seems to be well known to other users of libr already, see:
> http://code.env.duke.edu/projects/mget/ticket/203...
Ah. Yes, we should do something about that. Maybe automatically
add the R-bin dir to the PATH if it's not already there. This is
a Windows-specific problem, I take it?
I've added a function maybe_print_R_path_addition() in
lib/src/gretl_win32.c, but I'm not making use of it yet.
I have a few questions before I activate this code. Is it overkill
to add the R "bin", "modules" and "lib" directories to
PATH? Can
we get away with just adding the "bin" directory? And if we use
this, should it go into the Rsrc file?
Allin.
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8:01 p.m.
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Klein, Christoph wrote:
Thanks for the fast help. I think adding the bin directory is
sufficient. I have attached a sample script which provokes the
error.
Thanks. I've now activated the code that tries to amend the PATH
to include the R bin directory on Windows. As yet it's untested.
Allin.
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