[R] Problems installing FAME package on Windows 7.

[Uwe Ligges]

Probably something with your environment and/or your toolset.

Does the CRAN binary work for you?

i.e. just use

  install.packages("fame")

and try it out..

Best,
Uwe Ligges



On 20.08.2013 11:07, Andreas Dibiasi wrote:
> I have problems to install the FAME package. I have installed the fame
> client 9.3.32.2 and the environmental variable is set. However, for
> some reason, the warnings "error: argument "lib.loc" > is missing,
> with no default" pops up under the i386 installation and "LoadLibrary
> failure:  %1 is not a valid Win32 application" under x64. Has anyone
> experienced similar problems and know the a way how to solve it?
>
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>> install.packages("fame", repos = "http://cran.r-project.org/", type="source")Installing package into ‘C:/APPS/R/R-3.0.1/library’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)trying URL
> 'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/fame_2.18.tar.gz'Content type
> 'application/x-gzip' length 51940 bytes (50 Kb)opened URLdownloaded 50
> Kb
> * installing *source* package 'fame' ...
> ** Paket 'fame' erfolgreich entpackt und MD5 Summen überprüft
> ** libs
>
> *** arch - i386
> cygwin warning:
>    MS-DOS style path detected: C:/R/R-30~1.1/etc/i386/Makeconf
>    Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/R/R-30~1.1/etc/i386/Makeconf
>    CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
>    Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>      http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
> gcc -m32 -I"C:/R/R-30~1.1/include" -DNDEBUG -Dfame -DDUMMY_CALLS
> -I"d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/include"     -O3 -Wall
> -std=gnu99 -mtune=core2 -c chli.c -o chli.o
> gcc -m32 -I"C:/R/R-30~1.1/include" -DNDEBUG -Dfame -DDUMMY_CALLS
> -I"d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/include"     -O3 -Wall
> -std=gnu99 -mtune=core2 -c fame.c -o fame.o
> gcc -m32 -shared -s -static-libgcc -o fame.dll tmp.def chli.o fame.o
> -Ld:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/lib/i386
> -Ld:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/lib -LC:/R/R-30~1.1/bin/i386
> -lR
> C:\Rtools\gcc-4.6.3\bin\nm.exe: chli.c: File format not recognized
> gcc -m32 -shared -s -static-libgcc -o chli.dll chli.def chli.c
> -L"d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/lib/i386"
> -L"d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/lib"
> -L"C:/R/R-30~1.1/bin/i386" -lR
> installing to C:/APPS/R/R-3.0.1/library/fame/libs/i386
>
> *** arch - x64
> cygwin warning:
>    MS-DOS style path detected: C:/R/R-30~1.1/etc/x64/Makeconf
>    Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/R/R-30~1.1/etc/x64/Makeconf
>    CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
>    Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>      http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
> gcc -m64 -I"C:/R/R-30~1.1/include" -DNDEBUG -Dfame -DDUMMY_CALLS
> -I"d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/include"     -O2 -Wall
> -std=gnu99 -mtune=core2 -c chli.c -o chli.o
> gcc -m64 -I"C:/R/R-30~1.1/include" -DNDEBUG -Dfame -DDUMMY_CALLS
> -I"d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/include"     -O2 -Wall
> -std=gnu99 -mtune=core2 -c fame.c -o fame.o
> gcc -m64 -shared -s -static-libgcc -o fame.dll tmp.def chli.o fame.o
> -Ld:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/lib/x64
> -Ld:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/lib -LC:/R/R-30~1.1/bin/x64
> -lR
> C:\Rtools\gcc-4.6.3\bin\nm.exe: chli.c: File format not recognized
> gcc -m64 -shared -s -static-libgcc -o chli.dll chli.def chli.c
> -L"d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/lib/x64"
> -L"d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/extralibs64/local/lib"
> -L"C:/R/R-30~1.1/bin/x64" -lR
> installing to C:/APPS/R/R-3.0.1/library/fame/libs/x64
> ** R
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> *** arch - i386
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'fame', details:
>    call: library.dynam("fame", package = "fame")
>    error: Argument "lib.loc" fehlt (ohne Standardwert)
> Fehler: Laden fehlgeschlagen
> Ausführung angehalten
> *** arch - x64
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'fame', details:
>    call: inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...)
>    error: kann shared object 'C:/Program Files (x86)/FAME/chli.dll' nicht laden:
>    LoadLibrary failure:  %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
>
> Fehler: Laden fehlgeschlagen
> Ausführung angehalten
> ERROR: loading failed for 'i386', 'x64'
> * removing 'C:/APPS/R/R-3.0.1/library/fame'
> * restoring previous 'C:/APPS/R/R-3.0.1/library/fame'
> Warning in install.packages :
>    running command '"C:/R/R-30~1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l
> "C:\APPS\R\R-3.0.1\library"
> C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsbCarY/downloaded_packages/fame_2.18.tar.gz'
> had status 1
> Warning in install.packages :
>    installation of package ‘fame’ had non-zero exit status
>
> The downloaded source packages are in
> 	‘C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsbCarY\downloaded_packages’
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