[Rd] R CMD install on R 2.5.0 alpha

[Henrik Bengtsson]

I located the problem to INSTALL.  If no the library path is not
passed explicitly, that is no -l option is use, the following code in
called:

132:    my @out = R_runR("cat(.libPaths()[1])", "--slave");
133:    $library = @out[0];
134:    $library = Win32::GetShortPathName($library) if $library =~ / /;
135:    print "installing to '$library'\n";

In my .Rprofile I write a message "$HOME2/.Rprofile ...done" to
stdout.  This is what is picked up in @out[0] above, and then I guess
the code on line 134 turns this into an empty string (somehow).  By
adding option --vanilla to the R call, this problem goes away.

Here is a patch to $R_HOME/bin/INSTALL.

C:\Program Files\R\R-2.5.0alpha\bin>diff INSTALL INSTALL.new
132c132
<     my @out = R_runR("cat(.libPaths()[1])", "--slave");
---
>     my @out = R_runR("cat(.libPaths()[1])", "--vanilla --slave");


I'm not sure if that INSTALL is in the source.  The only thing I can
find in the SVN is INSTALL.in
(https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/scripts/INSTALL.in), but that
contains no such line of code?!?

/Henrik


On 4/7/07, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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
>