[Rd] Error in R CMD INSTALL on Windows XP using Rtools28
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat Dec 6 14:08:02 CET 2008
cstrato wrote:
> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, cstrato wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Dear Duncan
>>>
>>> Thank you for this explicit explanation, you are right:
>>>
>>> When setting the system variable "Path" (as administrator) in
>>> addition to setting the user variable "PATH" (as user), now
>>> everything works fine.
>>>
>>> Interestingly, setting the system variable "Path" on my laptop with
>>> Rtools27 seems not to be necessary.
>>>
>>> May I suggest that this could be clarified in "R Installation and
>>> Administration" since there only the user variable "PATH" is
>>> mentioned (as far as I see).
>>>
>> In a shell there is only one PATH, so the manual is correct.
>>
> I did not say that the manual is not correct, I only suggested to
> clarify the issue, since when running R CMD INSTALL from the Command
> Console I need to set also the system variable "Path".
>
I'd be reluctant to do this, for the same reason Brian was: the
documentation is correct. You need to set the PATH environment variable
correctly, and that's what we say. The fact that doing this is
complicated and confusing on Windows is a problem with the Windows
design and documentation, not the R documentation, and Microsoft
certainly has more resources than we do to address it. What was their
response when you asked them to improve their documentation?
Duncan Murdoch
>>> Thank you all one more time.
>>> Best regards
>>> Christian
>>>
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>
>>>> cstrato wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you all for you fast reply.
>>>>>
>>>>> As I said, everything on my laptop and Mac is identical, here are
>>>>> my user defined environment variables:
>>>>>
>>>>> HOME: c:\home\Rabbitus
>>>>> INCLUDE: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>>>> 9.0\VC\include;C:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include
>>>>> LIB: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>>>> 9.0\VC\lib;C:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib;C:\root\lib
>>>>> PATH:
>>>>> C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Programme\HTML
>>>>> Help Workshop;C:\Programme\R\R-2.8.0\bin;C:\root\bin;
>>>>> MSVSPATH: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin
>>>>> ROOTSYS: c:\root
>>>>> R_LIBS: cd "C:\home\Rabbitus\CRAN"
>>>>> TMPDIR: c:\home\Rabbitus\temp
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I think Brian was right, your PATH is not what is shown above.
>>>> (That doesn't include the Windows directories, for instance.)
>>>>
>>>> Were you running Rcmd INSTALL from a shell? Which shell? What does
>>>> the shell report as your PATH just before running it?
>>>> On Windows, the PATH is handled in a fairly complicated way. I
>>>> believe this description is correct, but it may not apply to all
>>>> Windows versions:
>>>>
>>>> The thing you set from within the Control Panel only applies to the
>>>> currently running copy of Explorer. Other applications that are
>>>> currently running (e.g. an existing CMD shell) do not have their
>>>> path updated.
>>>>
>>>> There are both system and user level PATH settings. Explorer
>>>> combines them by putting the system settings *first*.
>>>> Within a CMD shell, you can override the PATH completely, just by
>>>> setting it to a new set of directories.
>>>>
>>>> So it looks as though your problem is that your are showing us the
>>>> user settings for the PATH, but not the system settings, and the
>>>> system settings are messing you up.
>>>>
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>
>>>>> I have just checked again, all variables are identical on both
>>>>> systems.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could there be another reason?
>>>>> What about the registry setting mentioned by Gabor Grothendieck?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regaards
>>>>> Christian
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a PATH error: you must have Rtools/bin before Windows
>>>>>> system directories in your path. As the R-admin manual tells you
>>>>>> explicitly ....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> fortune("WTFM") applies.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, cstrato wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear all
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When trying to install my package on Windows XP on my Mac, I get
>>>>>>> the following error:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---------- Making package xps ------------
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> xpsDict.cxx
>>>>>>> "C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin/link" /dll
>>>>>>> /def:xps.def /out:xps.dll fp10.obj -opt:noref -nologo
>>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Hist -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Graf1
>>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__G3D -include:_G__cpp_setupG__GPad
>>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Tree -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Rint
>>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__PostScript
>>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Matrix -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Physics
>>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Ged "C:\root/lib/libCore.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libCint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libHist.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGraf3d.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTree.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libRint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPostscript.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libMatrix.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPhysics.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libNet.lib" "C:\root/lib/libRIO.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libMathCore.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGui.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGed.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTreePlayer.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libTreeViewer.lib" *.obj
>>>>>>> Creating library xps.lib and object xps.exp
>>>>>>> ... done
>>>>>>> installing DLL
>>>>>>> installing R files
>>>>>>> installing inst files
>>>>>>> FIND: Parameterformat falsch
>>>>>>> make[2]: *** [C:/home/Rabbitus/CRAN/xps.Rcheck/xps/inst] Error 2
>>>>>>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>>>> make: *** [pkg-xps] Error 2
>>>>>>> *** Installation of xps failed ***
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However, when I install my package on my Windows XP laptop,
>>>>>>> everything is ok:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---------- Making package xps ------------
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> xpsDict.cxx
>>>>>>> "C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin/link" /dll
>>>>>>> /def:xps.def /out:xps.dll fp10.obj -opt:noref -nologo
>>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Hist -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Graf1
>>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__G3D -include:_G__cpp_setupG__GPad
>>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Tree -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Rint
>>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__PostScript
>>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Matrix -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Physics
>>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Ged "C:\root/lib/libCore.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libCint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libHist.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGraf3d.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTree.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libRint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPostscript.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libMatrix.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPhysics.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libNet.lib" "C:\root/lib/libRIO.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libMathCore.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGui.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGed.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTreePlayer.lib"
>>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libTreeViewer.lib" *.obj
>>>>>>> Creating library xps.lib and object xps.exp
>>>>>>> ... done
>>>>>>> installing DLL
>>>>>>> installing R files
>>>>>>> installing inst files
>>>>>>> preparing package xps for lazy loading
>>>>>>> installing man source files
>>>>>>> installing indices
>>>>>>> Warning messages:
>>>>>>> 1: In file.create(f.tg) :
>>>>>>> kann Datei 'c:/Programme/R/R-2.8.0/doc/html/packages.html' nicht
>>>>>>> erzeugen. Grund 'Permission denied'
>>>>>>> 2: In tools:::win.packages.html(.Library) :
>>>>>>> kann HTML Paketindex nicht aktualisieren
>>>>>>> installing help
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'xps'
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To my knowledge I have only made one difference when installing
>>>>>>> everything necessary to build my package:
>>>>>>> On my laptop I have installed Rtools27.exe, while on WinXP on my
>>>>>>> Mac I have installed Rtools28.exe.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you know what the reason for the error might be?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>>> Christian
>>>>>>> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>>>> C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a
>>>>>>> V.i.e.n.n.a A.u.s.t.r.i.a
>>>>>>> e.m.a.i.l: cstrato at aon.at
>>>>>>> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>>>>
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