[R] Problem building packages from source (WIN32)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> hhc vegan.hhp
> make[2]: hhc: Command not found
> make[2]: [vegan.chm] Error 127 (ignored)


> It seems to be getting as far as doing the compiled HTML help and then
> not finding a particular file.  I'm am at a loss as to how to continue.
> Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong, or suggest what to do next?
> 
> I have tried this with a number of package sources from CRAN, and all
> fail at the same point, with the same message.  Because the CHM thing
> seemed to be the problem, I have installed the HTMLHelp workshop into a
> different directory on my disk, altered MkRules and tried Rcmd again,
> but the same thing happens.

This looks like a problem with your PATH setting. It expects to be
able to invoke the help compiler from a command line with just "hhc".
Set in autoexec.bat (if that still exists in W2000).

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