[Rd] Build from Source fails on Loading required package Matrix

[Simon Urbanek]

Dan,

On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Dan Murphy <chiefmurphy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I am building R 2.15.1 from source on a Windows 7 machine with the x64
> toolset, MixTeX, and InnoSetup per
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/. I obtained the source for
> 2.15.1 via svn from https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-15-branch/.

Did you also rsync the recommended packages? They are not in the SVN. If in doubt, use released source tar balls.

Cheers,
Simon



> This is my first try building R from source. The build seems to go far,
> then terminates with "undefined exports: .M.classEnv" from the Matrix
> package, I believe. Here are the last few lines of the build session
> 
> Creating a generic function for 'qr.resid' from package 'base' in package
> 'Matrix'
> Creating a generic function for 'qr.fitted' from package 'base' in package
> 'Matrix'
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices
> Loading required package: Matrix
> Error in namespaceExport(ns, exports) : undefined exports: .M.classEnv
> Error : require(Matrix) is not TRUE
> ERROR: installing package indices failed
> * removing 'C:/Users/Dan/Documents/R-2.15.1/library/Matrix'
> make[1]: *** [Matrix.ts] Error 1
> make: *** [recommended] Error 2
> 
> Perhaps there are special settings I should be making in MkRules.local? My
> only modification was MULTI = 64.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Dan Murphy
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