[R] Still having a problem with Rcmd - TMPDIR

[Uwe Ligges]

Andy Bunn wrote:
> 
> Hello R-users:
> 
> I'm experiencing difficulty in building a package in R 1.4.1 under Windows
> 2000. When I run Rcmd I get this:
> 
> F:\r\library>f:\r\bin\rcmd check ringsim
> Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory
> 
> F:\r\library>f:\r\bin\rcmd build ringsim
> Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory
> 
> This problem was discussed over a year ago - the problem was attributed to a
> Perl bug. The CHECK file was amended in the build and indeed mine has the
> line:
> 
> unless (-e $tmpdir);
> 
> It was thought that the -d was the bug. I added a print statement to CHECK
> as per B. Ripley's suggestion:
> 
> $WINDOWS = ($OS eq "windows");
> 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 (-e $tmpdir);
>     $R_exe = "Rterm.exe";
>     $LATEX = "latex";
>     $MAKE = "make";
> }
> 
> The output is below:
> 
> F:\r\library>f:\r\bin\rcmd check ringsim
> tmpdir is
> Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory
> 
> So it does indeed appear that there is no tmpdir. How can I set this
> variable? The default temp directory on my machine is e:\temp but all other
> applications see it. I'm running the latest perl (v5.6.1 built for
> MSWin32-x86-multi-thread).

>From ..../src/gnuwin32/readme.packages:
"You may need to set TMPDIR to a suitable temporary directory: the
default is c:\TEMP."
How to set environment variables should be explained in your Windows
2000 help. You can set this to your temp directory e:\temp. 
(Control Panel - System - anywhere ???  Sorry, cannot remember the right
way on Win2k, not installed on any machine around here).

Uwe Ligges
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