[Rd] R CMD install on R 2.5.0 alpha

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Hi.

On 4/7/07, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Nothing has changed here for three months, AFAICS.  However, I noticed you
> have installed R into a directory with a space in the path, despite the
> advice not to.  OTOH, I have just tested installing where you did, and
> was able to install R.oo:
>
> [c:/Program Files/R/R-2.5.0alpha/bin]% ./Rcmd INSTALL d:/R/packages/contrib/R.oo_1.2.3.tar.gz
> installing to 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-25~1.0AL/library'
> ...

Thank you for this confirmation.  It is odd though, because so have
also I done successfully for years.

>
> On Windows, INSTALL is a Perl script.  Please debug it to see what is
> going wrong on your setup (it is working for many others).

I will debug INSTALL to see what might go wrong.  I'll see if I can
locate an earlier version of R 2.5.0 alpha to see if the error really
is there or not.

>
> You can of course specify -l to workaround this.
>
> On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just downloaded the latest R v2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043) for
>
> That is not the latest binary build I am offered, let alone the latest
> sources.

Got it from the UC Davis CRAN mirror about an one hour before my message.

Thanks

Henrik

>
> > WinXP.  When I try to
> > install a package R tries to install it to a no-name (empty name)
> > directory (causing error downstream):
> >
> > RCMD INSTALL R.oo
> > installing to ''
> >
> > FYI: Package install perfectly on R v2.4.1 patched, and did so also on
> > earlier R v2.5.0 devel/alpha(?) versions.
> >
> > Current directory is:
> > C:\tmp
> >
> > with subdirectory R.oo/ containing inst/ man/ R/ DESCRIPTION as usual.
> >
> > I noticed the following in CHANGES and NEWS related to R CMD INSTALL:
> >
> > o     R CMD INSTALL now installs by default into the first library on
> >       the library path if R was run in the current environment.
> >       Similarly, R CMD REMOVE by default removes from that library.
> >       R CMD INSTALL does a better job of removing its temporary
> >       directory.
> >
> > o     R CMD INSTALL and R CMD REMOVE now use as the default library
> >       (if -l is not specified) the first library that would be used
> >       if R were run in the current environment (and they run R to
> >       find it).
> >
> >    o  R CMD INSTALL now prepends the installation directory (if
> >       specified) to the library search path.
> >
> > But my I do have:
> >
> >> .libPaths()
> > [1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.5.0alpha/library"
> >
> > My setup:
> > echo %RHOME%:
> > C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-2.5.0alpha
> >> .libPaths()
> > [1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.5.0alpha/library"
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043)
> > i386-pc-mingw32
> > locale:
> > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MON
> > ETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
> > [7] "base"
> >
> >
> > Any help appreciated
> >
> > Henrik
> >
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>
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