On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, Pindar wrote: > Am 27.12.2012 23:48, schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> 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 > Hi Allin, > > I found the environment variables, but there is no 'R' entry at all.
No, there wouldn't be, unless you add it. Anyway, I have made some changes in today's Windows snapshot, tested with R 2.15.2 on Windows 7, and it's now working without the need to add an R entry to PATH manually. Allin Cottrell
