[R] CreateThread failure since R 2.15.2 (32-bit)

[Uwe Ligges]

On 30.11.2012 12:27, Martin Studer wrote:
> Dear R users & developers,
>
> I coming across the following issue since R 2.15.2 32-bit (running on
> Windows XP 32.bit; some output left out for conciseness):


Works for me. Which Java version are you using is this?
Perhaps Java changes the environment so that your version of "ls" fails. 
Is it the one from Rtools?

Uwe Ligges



>> setInternet2(TRUE)
>> require(rJava)
>> .jinit()
>> getCRANmirrors()
>> system("ls" , intern = TRUE)
> Error in system("ls", intern = TRUE) : CreateThread failed
>
> My details are as follows:
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
> Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Switzerland.1252
> LC_CTYPE=German_Switzerland.1252
> LC_MONETARY=German_Switzerland.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                        LC_TIME=German_Switzerland.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] rJava_0.9-3
>
>
> The failure appears since R 2.15.2, i.e. also with R 2.15.2patched and
> with R-Devel. It does, however, not appear with e.g. R 2.15.1 or R
> 2.14.2. Also, I don't get the issue with R 2.15.2 64-bit (running on
> Windows 7 Professional 64-bit).
>
> Also note that the issue seems related to rJava in that running the
> same without the rJava part (and therefore without initializing a JVM
> instance) runs fine:
>
>> setInternet2(TRUE)
>> getCRANmirrors()
>> system("ls" , intern = TRUE)
>
> Any ideas on what the issue might be?
>
> Thanks & Best regards,
> Martin
>
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