Precompiling Rmath error

[nil-is-lin]

julia> using Distributions
[ Info: Precompiling Distributions [31c24e10-a181-5473-b8eb-7969acd0382f]
ERROR: LoadError: InitError: could not load library "F:***.julia\artifacts\8c1c1529ea289add57db6b790a3039ba491acdce\bin\libRmath-julia.dll"
The specified module could not be found.

✗ Rmath
✗ StatsFuns
✗ Distributions

(@v1.6) pkg> status Distributions
Status F:\***\.julia\environments\v1.6\Project.toml
[31c24e10] Distributions v0.25.76
Long-term support (LTS) release: v1.6.7 and Current stable release: v1.8.2 have been tried and both have this problem.

[devmotion]

That seems to be a problem with Rmath. It seems its binary artifact was not downloaded/installed correctly. So I assume it will fail with the same error message when you try julia> using Rmath (possibly you have to install it explicitly first if it's not a direct dependency of your environment yet). I don't know what's the best way to fix such issues, maybe try to remove the artifacts folder in the error message (ie, "F:***.julia\artifacts\8c1c1529ea289add57db6b790a3039ba491acdce/").

[nil-is-lin]

Yes, this problem is actually a problem with the Rmath package. If this dependency is gone, will the function of generating Gaussian random numbers still work?

[devmotion]

Yes, Rmath is only used for e.g. (log)pdfs and (log)cdfs of some special distributions for which no (sufficiently accurate) Julia implementation exists yet. But a broken Rmath installation means that everything that depends on it will be broken, so fixing your installation would still be best.

[devmotion]

I've transferred the issue to Rmath.jl as it is not an issue with Distributions.jl but rather with Rmath.jl (or, even more precisely, its binary artifacts it seems).

[nil-is-lin]

Thank you very much for your generous help, and may all the codes work as expected.

[ViralBShah]

Please reopen if still an issue.