From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Sat Apr  3 08:46:16 2010
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 07:46:16 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] packages with DLLs under 2.12.0
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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004030722540.3206@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>

That may have been true in r51520, but we are at r51566 and that does 
work as documented AFAICS.

Note though that this is only a temporary workaround, and it will go 
away once repositories are rebuilt for 2.12.0, and simply bulding the 
packages from sources would have worked.

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Peter Ehlers wrote:

> I realize that R-core must be busy with the imminent release of
> 2.11.0, so please consider this not urgent.

The advice for R-devel is always to try the latest version (preferably 
from SVN) and to wait a couple of days and try again if you find a 
problem, before reporting.

R-devel is particularly unstable at present as we work on merging the 
32- and 64-bit Windows distributions.  Unless you have a very good 
reason to use it, we suggest using 2.11.0 alpha etc until 2.11.0 is 
released.

> The NEWS file for 2.12.0 (Windows-specific) says, in part:

You mean the CHANGES file?

>  For now, 32-bit packages with compiled code built under
>  2.{10,11}.x can be used, but this will be disabled before
>  release.
>
> For me, this doesn't work without a tweak. For example,
>
>> library(mvtnorm)
> #Error: package 'mvtnorm' is not installed for 'arch=i386'
>
> I tested a few (6 or 7) other randomly selected packages
> (bitops, igraph, ...) before wising up and looking at the
> recommended and automatically installed packages like
> lattice, etc. I see that the 'libs' folder now has an
> 'i386' subfolder where the DDLs reside.
>
> Making that change by hand fixes the 'problem'.
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-03-31 r51520)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] mvtnorm_0.9-9
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.12.0
>
> -- 
> Peter Ehlers
> University of Calgary
>
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[Rd] packages with DLLs under 2.12.0
Prof Brian Ripley