[R] building packages in Windows under R 1.2.1

[Yves Gauvreau]

Hi,

Could it be because of is PATH and/or RHOME. He says it still works with R
1.2.0.

Yves Gauvreau
B.E.F.P. Universite du Quebec a Montreal
cyg at sympatico.ca

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch]De la part de Prof Brian Ripley
> Envoye : Monday, January 22, 2001 4:15 AM
> A : John Fox
> Cc : r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Objet : Re: [R] building packages in Windows under R 1.2.1
>
>
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, John Fox wrote:
>
> > Dear list members,
> >
> > I'm experiencing difficulty in building a package in R 1.2.1
> under Windows
> > 2000, using, as far as I can tell, the same approach that I used
> > successfully in R 1.2.0.
> >
> > More specifically, "rcmd build" produces the following error:
> >
> > 	C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1021\bin\rcmd build car
> > 	Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory
> >
> > It looked to me as if "rcmd build" wanted an environment variable called
> > TMPDIR, so I set one, but this didn't help.
>
> Yes, it does (and did under 1.2.0 unless c:/TEMP exists, which I think it
> usually does under Windows 2000).  In this version it actually tests for
> the existence of the directory.
>
> Which Perl version do you have?  I am baffled: this works for me under NT
> and 98 with three different Perl versions.  The symptom is that whatever
> Perl things $TMPDIR is does not exist.  Can you print out and check via
>
> if($WINDOWS){
>     $tmpdir = R_getenv("TMPDIR", "/TEMP");
>     print "tmpdir is $tmpdir\n"; # added line
>     die "Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory\n"
>         unless (-d $TMPDIR);
>
>
> >
> > Curiously, "rcmd build" under R.1.2.0 (which is also on my
> system) still works:
> >
> > 	C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1020\bin\rcmd build car
> > 	* checking for file `car/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> > 	* preparing `car':
> > 	* checking whether `INDEX' is up-to-date ... NO
> > 	* creating new INDEX
> > 	* checking whether `data/00Index' is up-to-date ... NO
> > 	* creating new data/00Index
> > 	* removing junk files
> > 	* building `car_0.6-0.tar.gz'
> >
> > After this, I can use "rcmd check" and "rcmd install" from
> version 1.2.1 to
> > finish the job:
> >
> > 	C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1021\bin\rcmd check car
> > 	* checking for working latex ... OK
> > 	* using log directory C:/rw1021/src/library/car.Rcheck
> >
> > 	. . .
>
> Well, one usually does check before build, and check contains identical
> code for the test, so I am even more baffled.
>
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