I ran the exact command this morning on a friend's computer which is 32bit and it worked! I am now running it from a different computer. As far as I can tell the only difference is that his OS is VISTA and mine is Windows 7. Can that really be the problem?!?!
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 11-05-26 8:42 PM, sivan aldor wrote: > >> The only command I am using is >> dyn.load("dbsvls.dll") >> > > Okay, I get the error message you showed if I try to load something that > really isn't a valid Win32 dll, and I don't get it when I load a valid one. > (I'm not sure if I can fix it to replace the %1 with the filename; I'll > look into that.) How do you know your dbsvls.dll really is valid? > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > >> >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Duncan Murdoch >> <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On 11-05-26 4:53 PM, sivan aldor wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> I am trying to work with a routine that is from the IMSL called >> BSVLS. I >> have the file as a .dll file. >> I have been trying to call the routine using the dyn.load >> function. I am >> working on a 32-bit windows 7 OS with 3 GB. For some reason i >> still keep >> getting the error message >> >> LoadLibrary %1 is not a valid Win32 application >> >> I looked at previous posting and they were all related to people >> trying to >> run dll files that was created under 64bit and not under 32bit. >> But I am >> running it on the correct settings. >> >> I have placed the .dll file in the BIN folder so R can find it. >> >> Any thoughts? ideas on how I should handle this? >> >> >> Why don't you tell us what you did? >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> >> >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.