[Rd] R CMD install on R 2.5.0 alpha

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

> 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.

There is not much point in getting alpha/betas from mirrors: they can 
introduce another 24-hour delay.

>
> 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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>> >
>> 
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>> 
>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595