[Rd] bulding a package for Windows (path problem?)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> jgarcia at ija.csic.es wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am working on a package with several hydrological functions which
>> builds/checks/INSTALLs gracefully for a Linux box. However, for a
>> Microsoft Windows XP [Versión 5.1.2600] I have the error:
>> 
>> C:\Archivos de programa\R\R-2.9.2\bin>R CMD build
>> C:\home\javier\Documents\hydrology\development\hydrosim
>> 
>
> Are you really using version 2.9.2?  If so, I think you're on your own.  The 
> current release is 2.11.1, and our efforts are concentrated on testing the 
> alpha/beta of 2.12.0 now.

And I believe he failed to heed the warning not to use a Cygwin build 
of Perl.

Please try R 2.12.0 alpha, which does not need any version of Perl to 
build/install/check a package.

>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> Can't locate R/Dcf.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C
>> /ARCHIV~1/R/R-29~1.2/share/perl; /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin
>> /usr/lib/per
>> l5/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
>> /
>> usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .)
>>  at C:\ARCHIV~1\R\R-29~1.2/bin/build line 28.
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\ARCHIV~1\R\R-29~1.2/bin/build line
>> 28.
>> 
>> However, the content of the first mentioned folder is:
>> 
>> C:\ARCHIV~1\R\R-29~1.2\share\perl\R>ls
>> Dcf.pm Logfile.pm Rd.pm Rdconv.pm Rdlist.pm Rdtools.pm Utils.pm Vars.pm
>> 
>> Is there a problem with the way windows abbreviates folder names for long
>> names of names withs spaces? Or the problem is elsewhere?
>> 
>> Please, could you help?
>> 
>> Thanks and best regards,
>> Javier
>> ---
>> 
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>> 
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595