I recently built R-devel on Windows XP (sessionInfo below), and when loading libraries that require the iconv.dll was getting an error stating that 'This application has failed to start because iconv.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.'.
An R-2.8.1 that I installed using the Windows installer has this dll in R-2.8.1/bin, whereas in R-devel it is still in R-devel/src/gnuwin32/unicode. Moving the dll to R-devel/bin alleviates the problem. I built using the recent recommendations of P. Dalgaard (make Rpwd.exe, make link-recommended, make all recommended). I don't see anything in the NEWS for this version, but maybe I missed something? Best, Jim > sessionInfo() R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-03-11 r48117) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base other attached packages: [1] XML_1.99-0 -- James W. MacDonald, M.S. Biostatistician Douglas Lab 5912 Buhl 1241 E. Catherine St. Ann Arbor MI 48109-5618 734-615-7826 ********************************************************** Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
