On 10/10/2006 12:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > =20 > > =20 > > I use the FEAR package available from=20 > > =20 > > http://www.clemson.edu/economics/faculty/wilson/
You should contact Prof. Wilson-- this is a bug in his package, not in R. Perhaps all that is needed is for it to be re-built in 2.4.0, but you'll need the package source for that. As far as I could see (in a very cursory examination) this is not available on his web site. Duncan Murdoch > > =20 > > which works perfectly in Rv2.2.0; after installing from a local zip and > loading I find: > > =20 > > USING R version 2.2.0 > > =20 > >> 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 > >> > > =20 > > and everything works well. > > =20 > > 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). > > =20 > > =20 > > USING R version 2.4.0 > > =20 > >> 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' > > =20 > > =20 > > =20 > > Is this a bug in R version 2.4.0 and is there a fix? > > =20 > > =20 > > =20 > > ************************* > > Prof J Richmond > > Department of Economics > > University of Essex > > Colchester CO4 3SQ > > United Kingdom > > Tel: +44-(0)1206-872769 > > FAX: +44-(0)1206-872724 > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ************************* > > =20 > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel