From richj at essex.ac.uk  Tue Oct 10 18:58:25 2006
From: richj at essex.ac.uk (richj at essex.ac.uk)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:58:25 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] possible bug? (PR#9285)
Message-ID: <20061010165825.A7CEAA26A@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

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I use the FEAR package available from=20

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http://www.clemson.edu/economics/faculty/wilson/

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which works perfectly in Rv2.2.0; after installing from a local zip and
loading I find:

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USING R version 2.2.0

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> local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =3D TRUE)))

+ if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=3DTRUE)})

Loading required package: KernSmooth

KernSmooth 2.22 installed

Copyright M. P. Wand 1997

FEAR (Frontier Efficiency Analysis with R) 0.913 installed

Copyright Paul W. Wilson 2005

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and everything works well.

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On the other hand with R version 2.4.0, although the package installs
properly from the local zip, it does not load correctly (the same
problem occurs with the patched version of 2.4.0).

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USING R version 2.4.0

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> local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =3D TRUE)))

+ if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=3DTRUE)})

> utils:::menuInstallLocal()

package 'FEAR' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

updating HTML package descriptions

> local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available =3D TRUE)))

+ if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=3DTRUE)})

Loading required package: KernSmooth

KernSmooth 2.22 installed

Copyright M. P. Wand 1997

Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :=20

        unable to load shared library
'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-24~1.0/library/FEAR/libs/FEAR.dll':

  LoadLibrary failure:  The specified procedure could not be found.

Error in library(pkg, character.only =3D TRUE) :=20

        .First.lib failed for 'FEAR'

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Is this a bug in R version 2.4.0 and is there a fix?

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