This blog post is intended to try to address the following error message:
“Compile error in hidden module: ‘xx’. This error commonly occurs when code is incompatible with the version, platform, or architecture of this application”
The usual reason for getting this message is that Solver has not been installed. You can determine whether this is the case, by pressing Alt-TI in Windows (or selecting the Add-ins option from the Tools menu on the Mac) and seeing whether Solver is on the list of addins with a check mark next to it.
When you get this type of message even though Solver has been installed, Corby, a Real Statistic user, has recently posted the following suggestion:
“I was able to solve it by uninstalling and reinstalling the package and making very sure NOT to click the downloaded software before enabling it from the add-ins menu (as Charles’ directions rightly point out). I had clicked on it out of habit before following the rest of the directions, and while everything else seemed to work fine (Solver was checked and =VER() worked), I ran into that error as soon as I tried to run a logistic regression. I wouldn’t have expected that clicking on the download would have that effect, so perhaps that may explain other people’s errors too.”
The key message here is not to double-click on the file containing the Real Statistics software. Instead use the installation instructions shown on the webpage from where you download the software.
Thanks to Corby for sharing his observations.
Charles