[Rcpp-devel] RInside missing R.dll

[Dan Murphy]

Hi Dirk,
I copied R.dll from the 64 bit folder to the examples\standard folder,
and that got me beyond the dll complaint. But now I have the more
innocuous
"The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)"
Is that progress?
Thanks,
Dan

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> On 27 August 2012 at 18:02, Dan Murphy wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | I am getting started with RInside. After making the standard example
> exe's, I
> | run rinside_sample0 and get the following System Error:
> | "The program can't start because R.dll is missing from your computer. "
>
> That's unfortunatly somewhat standard. See below.
>
> | Background:
> |
> | I installed R-2.15.1 to C:\R and downloaded RInside (and of course Rcpp)
> | into C:\R\R-2.15.1\library (not a personal library). Then I was able to
> "make
> | -f makefile.win" all the examples in
> C:\R\R-2.15.1\library\RInside\examples\
> | standard. Since everything compiled "out of the box", I made no changes
> to
> | makefile.win.
> |
> | I am running R-2.15.1 under Windows 7 64bit. Here is my session info:
> |
> | R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> | Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> |
> | locale:
> | [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> | [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> | [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> | [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> | [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> |
> | attached base packages:
> | [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> |
> |
> | My PATH contains "C:\R\R-2.15.1\bin\x64" (in case that's important).
>
> That PATH setting is the key.
>
> You will have to copy whatever dll Windows complains about to
>
>   -- either the current directory (but that gets old quick once you change
>      directories)
>
>   -- another directory in the path
>
> I think I have opted in the past for a dedicated bin/ directory parallel
> to
> Rtools so I would see it easily enough.
>
> Cheers, Dirk
>
>
> | Thank you for your help.
> |
> | Dan Murphy
> |
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