[Rd] Error in R CMD INSTALL on Windows XP using Rtools28

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Any Windows batch script that uses the Windows find command.

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:08 PM, cstrato <cstrato at aon.at> wrote:
> Dear Gabor,
>
> Sorry, my mistake, here are my correct path settings:
>
> System Path:
> C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Programme\MiKTeX
> 2.7\miktex\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem
>
> User 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;
>
> I have just tested again that:
> - R CMD check is ok and produces the vignettes
> - I can compile my C++ source code with VC++ independently of R
>
> Thus at the moment there seem to be no conflicts, however, this could be the
> case in the future.
> Do you have any examples, where the Rtools find can cause conflicts with
> Windows?
>
> Best regards
> Christian
>
>
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>
>> You could leave your path at:
>>
>>
>> %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;c:\Programme\Microsoft
>> SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\
>>
>> and then use Rcmd.bat or rtools.bat to add the rest.
>>
>> Also there are still two problems:
>>
>> 1. one of the dangers of your setup is that
>> Rtools has a conflict with Windows since it
>> has its own find which takes over from Windows' find
>> and can cause Windows batch files not related to R to fail.
>> As a result its not a good idea to permanently set your
>> path to include the rtools but better to do it session
>> by session so that non-R sessions are unaffected.
>>
>> 2. Also you still don't seem to have MiKTeX on your path
>> so I don't think its correct yet.  Rcmd.bat or rtools.bat
>> would add the path to MiKTeX too (if you have it in a
>> standard location).
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:41 AM, cstrato <cstrato at aon.at> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dear Duncan, dear Gabor,
>>>
>>> Thank you for this additional information and all these great tips.
>>>
>>> Setting the system path in the following way solved my problem:
>>>
>>> c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\perl\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;c:\Programme\Microsoft
>>> SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\
>>>
>>> Luckily this solves also the problem with potential conflicts between R
>>> tools, Microsoft tools and ROOT, so that I do not have to rename any
>>> tools
>>> (which I would be reluctant to do).
>>>
>>> Since at the moment everything seems to work fine, and I am no Windows
>>> expert (I do all my development on my Mac), I will keep the current
>>> setting,
>>> however, the next time I have to set up everything, I will try to take
>>> advantage of Rcmd.bat since Gabor mentions that it will not override any
>>> of
>>> my settings.
>>>
>>> Regarding the R installation documentation, I understand now that this
>>> seems
>>> to be a problem of my complicated setup and not a general problem, so
>>> adding
>>> this information may confuse other people.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Christian
>>>
>>>
>>> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The http://batchfiles.googlecode.com home page does give some tips for
>>>> setting
>>>> paths just in case.  Of course if you are using the batchfiles you
>>>> won't have to set
>>>> any paths in the first place.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>