[Rd] R CMD INSTALL problem

[John Fox]

Dear list members,

I've run into a problem with R CMD INSTALL under Windows Vista and R 2.8.0:

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C:\Users\John Fox\workspace>c:\R\R-2.8.0\bin\R CMD INSTALL car
installing to ''


---------- Making package car ------------
  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
  installing NAMESPACE file and metadata
  installing R files
  installing inst files
  installing data files
  preparing package car for lazy loading
Warning in list.files(lib, pattern = paste("^", pkg_regexp, sep = ""), ful
s = TRUE) :
  list.files: '' is not a readable directory
Error in findpack(package, lib.loc) : there is no package called 'car'
Calls: <Anonymous> -> findpack
Execution halted
make[2]: *** [lazyload] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [pkg-car] Error 2
*** Installation of car failed ***

Removing '/car'

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Apparently, the package isn't being installed to the standard library
location.

The same command works perfectly fine under R 2.7.2:

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C:\Users\John Fox\workspace>c:\R\R-2.7.2\bin\R CMD INSTALL car
installing to 'c:/R/R-2.7.2/library'


---------- Making package car ------------
  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
  installing NAMESPACE file and metadata
  installing R files
  installing inst files
  installing data files
  preparing package car for lazy loading
  preparing package car for lazy data loading
  installing man source files
  installing indices
  installing help
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'car'
     Formats: text html latex example chm
  Adler                             text    html    latex           chm
  Angell                            text    html    latex           chm
  Anova                             text    html    latex   example chm
  Anscombe                          text    html    latex           chm

  . . .
  
  vif                               text    html    latex   example chm
  which.names                       text    html    latex   example chm
Microsoft HTML Help Compiler 4.74.8702

Compiling c:\Users\JOHNFO~1\WORKSP~1\car\chm\car.chm


Compile time: 0 minutes, 2 seconds
80      Topics
248     Local links
3       Internet links
1       Graphic


Created c:\Users\JOHNFO~1\WORKSP~1\car\chm\car.chm, 144,998 bytes
Compression decreased file by 191,708 bytes.
  adding MD5 sums

* DONE (car)

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I see in the Windows CHANGES file that Rcmd.exe has been modified. Do I have
to set an environment variable that I didn't have to set before?

Any help would be appreciated.

John

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John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox