From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Wed May  6 20:54:13 2015
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 14:54:13 -0400
Subject: [Rd] IdntoAscii issue with KERNEL32.dll on 64-bit R on Windows
 Server 2003 x64 SP2
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On 06/05/2015 2:38 PM, Vinh Nguyen wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On the MSDN page for that function, it mentions that you need a header file and DLL to use it in XP or Server 2003.   You might try downloading the DLL to see if it works for you automagically; I think it's unlikely we will put in code to special case that version in the general release of R, as Microsoft is abandoning it as of July this year.
>
> Thanks Duncan.  I downloaded the files from
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd318149%28v=vs.85%29.aspx,
> extracted, and installed (idndl.amd64.exe); don't think the header
> files were copied/moved anywhere.  The error still persists after
> restarting the server.
>
> Any other thoughts?  Thanks.

Only some not so helpful suggestions:
  - use the 32 bit version,
  - update your OS
  - figure out where to patch the 64 bit version, and build a custom one 
for yourself.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] IdntoAscii issue with KERNEL32.dll on 64-bit R on Windows Server 2003 x64 SP2
Duncan Murdoch