R help - Jun 2011 - cairoDevice on Windows: succesful installation but does not load

Hi!
I've tried to install playwith on Windows XP but,
> install.packages("cairoDevice")
trying URL
'http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/cairoDevice_2.15.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 52371 bytes (51 Kb)
opened URL
downloaded 51 Kb

package 'cairoDevice' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded packages are in
        d:\Documents and Settings\_llp_gr_interfase.UAB\Configuraci?n
local\Temp\RtmpOo5UAa\downloaded_packages
> require(playwith)
Loading required package: playwith
Loading required package: cairoDevice
Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
  unable to load shared object 'C:/Archivos de
programa/R/R-2.13.0/library/cairoDevice/libs/i386/cairoDevice.dll':
  LoadLibrary failure:  No se puede encontrar el m?dulo especificado.

Failed with error:  ?package 'cairoDevice' could not be loaded?

I've also tried installing cairoDevice but get the same problem. The dll
'C:/Archivos de
programa/R/R-2.13.0/library/cairoDevice/libs/i386/cairoDevice.dll'
is there despite the system claiming it's not
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Catalan_Spain.1252  LC_CTYPE=Catalan_Spain.1252
LC_MONETARY=Catalan_Spain.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Catalan_Spain.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] lattice_0.19-23 rgdal_0.6-33    raster_1.8-31   geoR_1.6-35
sp_0.9-82

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.13.0  tools_2.13.0
>
Thanks

Agus

On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> Hi!
> I've tried to install playwith on Windows XP but,
>
>> install.packages("cairoDevice")
> trying URL
'http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/cairoDevice_2.15.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 52371 bytes (51 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 51 Kb
>
> package 'cairoDevice' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>        d:\Documents and Settings\_llp_gr_interfase.UAB\Configuraci?n
> local\Temp\RtmpOo5UAa\downloaded_packages
>> require(playwith)
> Loading required package: playwith
> Loading required package: cairoDevice
> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>  unable to load shared object 'C:/Archivos de
> programa/R/R-2.13.0/library/cairoDevice/libs/i386/cairoDevice.dll':
>  LoadLibrary failure:  No se puede encontrar el m?dulo especificado.
>
> Failed with error:  ?package 'cairoDevice' could not be loaded?
>
> I've also tried installing cairoDevice but get the same problem. The
dll
> 'C:/Archivos de
> programa/R/R-2.13.0/library/cairoDevice/libs/i386/cairoDevice.dll'
> is there despite the system claiming it's not
No, it is not claiming that. It does not say which the module is it 
cannot find (although Windows often does in a popup), and it is almost 
certainly not cairoDevice.dll.

Welcome to the wondrous world of Microsoft error messages!

I strongly suspect though that you failed to install the external 
software required and listed at
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/@ReadMe

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