[Rd] Build package for R 2.0.1 under Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 Per.Broberg at astrazeneca.com wrote:

> This summer I and a colleague built a package for R v 1.9.1 containing
> C-code under Windows. That only worked for us when
> R was installed in c:\program files\R. Now I have R v 2.0.1 and the same
> package won't build. I get the following
>
> C:\Program Files\R\rw2001\bin>rcmd check "c:\program
> files\r\rw2001\src\library\
> sag"
> * checking for working latex ...latex: not found
> NO
> * using log directory 'C:/Program Files/R/rw2001/bin/sag.Rcheck'
> * checking for file 'sag/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
>
> installing R.css in C:/PROGRA~1/R/rw2001/bin/SAG~1.RCH
>
>
> ---------- Making package sag ------------
>  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
>  making DLL ...
>  ... DLL made
>  installing DLL
>  installing R files
>  installing man source files
>  installing indices
>  installing help
> >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'sag'
>     Formats: text html latex example chm
>  Fstat                             text    html    latex   example
>
>
> # I delete some of the list of functions
>
>  samrocn                           text    html    latex
>  samrocnboot                       text    html    latex   example
>
> Microsoft HTML Help Compiler 4.74.8702
>
> Compiling c:\PROGRA~1\r\rw2001\src\library\sag\chm\sag.chm
>
>
> Compile time: 0 minutes, 1 second
> 40      Topics
> 78      Local links
> 9       Internet links
> 1       Graphic
>
>
> Created c:\PROGRA~1\r\rw2001\src\library\sag\chm\sag.chm, 54,723 bytes
> Compression decreased file by 51,513 bytes.
>  preparing package sag for lazy loading
> Error in findpack(package, lib.loc) : There is no package called 'sag'
> Execution halted
> make: *** [lazyload] Error 1
> *** Installation of sag failed ***
>
> Removing 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/rw2001/bin/SAG~1.RCH/sag'
> ERROR
> Installation failed.
>
> What happened?

See the advice about not installing R into a path with spaces in.  Not 
that we can reproduce this: I have tried a lot of combinations with spaces 
in and all work for me.

I suspect

cd C:\Program Files\R\rw2001\src\library
..\..\bin\rcmd check sag

will work.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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