[Rd] build packages with vignettes in Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 29/04/2008 2:51 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> The use of the UNIX find command on Windows makes installation
> very troublesome and fragile.   I wonder if you could include a
> find2 or somesuch with the tools and change the scripts to use that
> getting rid of find or use just use the Windows find command in the
> scripts.  Or some other solution so that one does not have to have
> a non-Windows find on the PATH.

Find isn't unique:  there are lots of versions of make, and grep, and 
tar that don't work, either.  We've adopted a simple solution, and it 
works:  when you're using the R tools, put them first on the path.

We've thought about including the R tools with R, which would increase 
the size of the distribution quite a bit. Then Rcmd.exe could do the 
path modifications, and you wouldn't need to worry about doing it 
yourself.  That might still happen for 2.8.0.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> If you don't have the find in Rtools first in your path then you have
> problems like the one below and if you do have it first then it throws
> off the scripts from other software.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>> On 29/04/2008 12:54 PM, Michael wrote:
>>> I've been trying to build a Windows binary of a package of mine without
>>> success.  It seems that the files under inst/doc throw the script off.
>>>
>>> I am using the command 'Rcmd INSTALL --build'.
>>>
>>> ---------- Making package genepi ------------
>>>  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
>>>  installing NAMESPACE file and metadata
>>>  installing R files
>>>  installing inst files
>>> FIND: Parameter format not correct
>>>
>> That looks as though you don't have the tools installed correctly, you have
>> some other "find" earlier on your path.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
>>
>>> make[2]: *** [C:/Library/R/genepi/inst] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>>> make: *** [pkg-genepi] Error 2
>>> *** Installation of genepi failed ***
>>>
>>> I also tried a couple of packages downloaded from CRAN.  Those without
>>> inst/doc directory worked fine and those who do have it didn't.
>>>
>>> I'm using a fresh install of R-2.7.0 and Rtools-2.7.
>>> Any clue of what was wrong with my setup?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
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