[R] Problem with dyn.load in R1.6.1

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

No deliberate change (it _was_ a patch release).  However, this is a not
uncommon occurence with code that is incorrect and corrupts memory or the
stack: sometimes you get away with it on some platforms.  We found that
with a version of the tseries package: it worked on 1.6.0 but not 1.6.1 on
Windows. (The problem was a .C call with one too few arguments.)

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Rob Hyndman wrote:

> I've been successfully using a dll via dyn.load() with R1.6.0 for
> Windows, but when I try it under R1.6.1 it manages to crash the program
> completely. Has there been a change in how R1.6.1 handles dynamic
> loading? I couldn't spot any such changes in the documentation. This
> problem occurred on two different machines, and both run the code under
> R1.6.0 without a problem.

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