[Rd] Failure to build home-made package on WINDOWS 2000 professional

[Uwe Ligges]

Joost Schalken wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to build a home-made package (log2html) to
> log R output to an HTML file. The package can be build
> successfully under Solaris, however I am unable to build
> the system under Windows 2000 Professional.
> 
> I read (and tried to follow to the letter) Duncan Murdoch's
> "Building R for Windows" (http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/),
> in combination with the newest version of R (2.3.1), yet when
> doing this I receive the following message while compiling the
> system:
> 
>     > R CMD check log2html
>     * checking for working latex ...latex: not found  NO
>     * using log directory 'D:/tmp/log2html.Rcheck'
>     * using Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
>     * checking for file 'log2html/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>     * checking extension type ... Package
>     * this is package 'log2html' version '1.0-1'
>     * checking package dependencies ... OK
>     * checking if this is a source package ... OK
>     * checking whether package 'log2html' can be installed ... ERROR
>     Installation failed.
>     See 'D:/tmp/log2html.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.
> 
> In the file D:/tmp/log2html.Rcheck/00install.out are the following
> messages:
>     installing R.css in H:/tmp/log2html.Rcheck
>     '.' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
> program or batch file.
>     '.' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
> program or batch file.
>     '.' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
> program or batch file.
>     make: *** /log2html: No such file or directory.  Stop.
>     make: *** [pkg-log2html] Error 2
>     *** Installation of log2html failed ***
>     Removing 'D:/tmp/log2html.Rcheck/log2html'
> 
> Can anybody provide me with hints how to solve this
> problem?


Can you tell us your exact PATH settings, please?

Uwe Ligges


> Kind regards,
> 
> Joost Schalken
> 
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