R help - May 2004 - R on Windows Hangs on Packages Built from Sources

Hi,

I am currently having the following problem with R 1.9.0. Any package that
contains C or Fortran code hangs after I have built it and load it into R.
I've tried this with RMySQL and udunits, originally I thought I had done
something subtly wrong in configuring these packages; but I just had the
same problem with a simple example R package that I wrote. I was able to
build and load the package on a Linux system at school so I figure I've,
hopefully, ruled out a programming problem on my part.

The system I'm having the problem on is as follows:
AMD AthlonXP
R 1.9.0 installed from binaries
GCC 3.3.1

Thanks,

James

It must be frustrating, but 

- that setup does work for other people
- I don't think we have ever seen a `hang' of that sort.

I would try one of the packages on CRAN which does have a recent binary 
compiled.  (I tend to use ash to test, as it is small and uses Fortran.)
If that fails then you need a way to debug the `hang' (and you haven't 
told us exactly where it is, so I can't suggest any).

On Wed, 5 May 2004, James Chapman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently having the following problem with R 1.9.0. Any package that
> contains C or Fortran code hangs after I have built it and load it into R.
> I've tried this with RMySQL and udunits, originally I thought I had
done
> something subtly wrong in configuring these packages; but I just had the
> same problem with a simple example R package that I wrote. I was able to
> build and load the package on a Linux system at school so I figure
I've,
> hopefully, ruled out a programming problem on my part.
> 
> The system I'm having the problem on is as follows:
> AMD AthlonXP
> R 1.9.0 installed from binaries
> GCC 3.3.1
Just checking -- gcc 3.3.3 for MinGW as in

[c:/R/rw2000/src/gnuwin32]% gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3.1 (mingw special 20030804-1)

?  Someone sent me several messages recently, and it transpired was trying
to use the cygwin compilers.

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On Wed, 5 May 2004 21:55:46 -0500, "James Chapman"
<james-chapman at uiowa.edu> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am currently having the following problem with R 1.9.0. Any package that
>contains C or Fortran code hangs after I have built it and load it into R.
...
>The system I'm having the problem on is as follows:
>AMD AthlonXP
>R 1.9.0 installed from binaries
>GCC 3.3.1
Is that the MinGW GCC?  The Cygwin build hasn't been tested recently
with R, but in the past it wouldn't work.

Duncan Murdoch