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On April 11, 2015 10:39:41 AM PDT, "Maciej Węgorkiewicz" <wegor...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi all, > >I am just starting with R and cannot use "lmtest" package on Windows 8. >This package contains dwtest function that I am interested in. > >I began with installing the core of R (with rgui) - version 3.1.3 >64-bit. > >Then I installed lmtest package using GUI menu, but after success >message I cannot run dwtest() getting message that the it cannot find >the function. > >When I used installed.packages() function I saw lmtest on the list but >there was "yes" under the "NeedsCompilation" column. Does it mean I >need to compile the package in order to use it? > >I uninstalled lmtest and tried to put binary Windows version by >downloading zip file from here: >http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lmtest/index.html > >I took the file: >http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.1/lmtest_0.9-33.zip > >downloaded it and tried to use the function of installing from local >zip file. > >However the effect was the same: "NeedsCompilation" set to true, >dwtest does not work. >The package contains binary file for 64-bit (DLLs). > >What can I do in order to run this? > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.