[Rd] R CMD on windows 7

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> As far as I know, nobody of the developers who also work under Windows has 
> access to Windows 7 these days. Patches are welcome, of course!

But the described behaviour seems identical to Vista, and the 
workarounds the same as those in the rw-FAQ.

I've not seen any report elsewhere of a change in permissions 
behaviour in Windows 7, and before we consider any changes we would 
need references to Microsoft documentation of such a change.

>
> Best wishes,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
> Robert J. Hijmans wrote:
>> I had difficulties running R CMD check and build on windows 7.
>> 
>> The problem seems to be that the script creates folders to which
>> nobody has any access permissions (not even read). So the script can
>> not delete these folders or open files.
>> 
>> This worked for me:
>> 
>> Go to the properties of the root folder of your R project (e.g. "D:\R").
>> Change the settings so that this folder and its sub-folders do not
>> inherit permissions.
>> I wanted to next remove the "system" user (but that happened by
>> itself); and I added myself as a user (not sure if necessary, but
>> that's what I did).
>> You probably need admin privileges to do this.
>> 
>> 
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>> 
>> locale:
>> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> 
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