[R] Matrix package will not loead

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You will find the problem and solution in the list archives.

The current version of Matrix can be installed *from source* on R (>= 
2.15.0), as it claims.  But if you install it on R >= 2.15.2 then it 
uses features of 2.15.2 and hence can only be run on R >= 2.15.2. And 
there was a warning about this ....

On 13/11/2012 12:38, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 12-11-13 7:06 AM, Uzuner, Tolga I wrote:
>> Dear Fellow R Users,
>>
>> I am having a problem with the Matrix package, in Windows XP on  R
>> 2.15.1 .
>>
>> This is the only package where I experience this. I remove the package
>> first, re install, and then when trying to load, get a LoadLibrary
>> failure as below.
>
> I've just installed a binary copy of Matrix 1.0-10 in R 2.15.2 patched,
> and I get an error too on attaching it:  "The procedure entry point
> Rf_copyListMatrix could not be located in the dynamic link library
> R.dll."  I'm pretty sure that procedure is available in R.dll currently,
> so I don't know what the real problem is.

The issue is if it is exported from R.dll, which only happened just 
before 2.15.2.  Works for me with the Matrix binary package on the CRAN 
master and both 2.15.2 and the current R-patched (which in any case 
contains that version).

>
> I have just rebuilt R, and the same package works fine.  So I'd suggest
> that you download the latest R-patched from CRAN, and hopefully things
> will be fine.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tolga
>>
>>
>>> remove.packages("Matrix")
>> Removing package(s) from 'H:/R/win-library/2.15'
>> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
>>> install.packages("Matrix")
>> Installing package(s) into 'H:/R/win-library/2.15'
>> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
>> trying URL
>> 'http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/Matrix_1.0-10.zip'
>>
>> Content type 'application/zip' length 3289545 bytes (3.1 Mb)
>> opened URL
>> downloaded 3.1 Mb
>>
>> package 'Matrix' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>
>> The downloaded binary packages are in
>>          C:\Data\N048564\temp\RtmpoDC7HF\downloaded_packages
>>> library("Matrix")
>> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>>    unable to load shared object
>> 'H:/R/win-library/2.15/Matrix/libs/i386/Matrix.dll':
>>    LoadLibrary failure:  The specified procedure could not be found.
>>
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> package 'Matrix' was built under R version 2.15.2
>> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Matrix'
>>>
>>
>>
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