[Rcpp-devel] Problems running RInside 0.2.5 on Windows with R 2.14.1 and Rtools 21[45]

[Adrian Maries]

Hi Diomidis, Dirk and everyone else,

Was this problem solved in the meantime? I have the same "Fatal error: 
unable to open the base package" problem. I'm using RInside 0.2.4, 
Rtools 2.13.0.1901, R 2.13.2 on 32-bit Windows 7. As far as I can tell, 
there is no configuration error. I've installed everything from scratch 
twice just to make sure I don't get that same error because of messing 
something up.

R_HOME points to .."\R\R-2.13.2" which seems fine to me. I should also 
mention that I personally need to integrate R with QT, but I tried 
running both the QT example and the examples in the "standard" directory 
and I get the same "unable to open the base package" error. I really 
need to get this to work, so I would appreciate and 
ideas/suggestions/comments from anyone.

Thank you,
Adrian Maries


On 1/2/2012 7:16 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Hi Diomidis,
>
> On 2 January 2012 at 19:41, Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
> | On 02/01/2012 18:52, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> |>  On 2 January 2012 at 18:33, Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
> |>  | Perhaps I should mention that the examples fail to find R.dll from the R
> |>  | installation directory, although it is in the command path (Windows can
> |>  | find it when I type R.dll on the cmd shell command line).
> |>
> |>  That should not happen, and the R example does not matter (as R has its own
> |>  registry).
> |>
> |>  Maybe you need both bin/ and bin/x64/ (or whatever it is called) in the
> |>  $PATH.
> |
> | I did a methodical investigation on the issue.  This is what I get from
> | rinside_sample0 with various path configurations.
> |
> | No path: Missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
> | Add $Rtools\mingGW\bin: Missing R.dll
> | Add $R_HOME\bin: Missing R.dll
> | Add $R_HOME\bin\i386: Crash
> | Change i386 to X64: Application was unable to start correctly
> |
> | Include both $R_HOME\bin\i386 and $R_HOME\bin\X64 in the path: Crash
> | Compile from source in $RSRC
> | Add $RSRC\bin: Missing R.dll
> | Append $RSRC\bin\i386: Crash
> |
> | Change to a directory where the binary package DLLs were copied: Crash
> | Change to a directory where the compiled DLLs were copied: Crash
>
> Yikes.  Looks like we need to look more closely at the 64-bit case.  I will
> have to get myself access to a 64 bit windows machine with Rtools.
>
> | Use $R_HOME\bin;$R_HOME\bin\i386 path and unset R_HOME: Fatal error:
> | unable to open the base package
>
> That may be borderline / a configuration error as R needs R_HOME.
>
> Dirk
>