[Rd] symbols.rds error 1

[Tomas Kalibera]

On 4/5/22 15:25, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 15:08:10 +0200
> Roman Savchenko <gmstima using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Error in system(sprintf("%s -Pg %s", nm, shQuote(f)), intern = TRUE) :
>>    '""' not found
> This does highlight a minor bug in R (an empty string is accidentally
> quoted, so the absence of nm on the PATH isn't noted), but your setup
> is part of the problem too, I think. How did you install Rtools? (Is it
> appropriate here? Is R-pkg-devel a better fit?)
>
> Here's the patch fixing the check (but not the reason why R can't find
> nm on your machine):
>
> --- src/library/tools/R/sotools.R       (revision 82033)
> +++ src/library/tools/R/sotools.R       (working copy)
> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
>       if(!nzchar(nm)) {
>           ## reasonable to assume nm is on the path
>           nm <- Sys.which("nm")
> -        if(!nzchar(nm)) nm <- shQuote(nm)
> +        if(nzchar(nm)) nm <- shQuote(nm)
>       }
>       if(!nzchar(nm)) {
>           warning("this requires 'nm' to be on the PATH")

Thanks, fixed in R

Tomas

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