[R] Making R packages

[Thomas Petzoldt]

Gattuso, Jean-Pierre wrote:


> The following command is run in a windows console:
>     C:\Program Files\R\rw1071\bin\rcmd INSTALL D:\CO2
> 
> Then he gets the following error (approximate translation of a French 
> message) :
>     "Perl is not recognized as an internal or external command, an 
> executable file or a command file"

You (or he) has to set the appropriate PATH to contain the tools, the 
Perl\bin  the Mingw\bin and the Html-Workshop directories. You should 
respect capitalization of the path names and avoid spaces within the 
names. For the latter you can use the abbreviated directory name, e.g. 
C:\PROGRA~1\Perl\bin (or whatever) instead of C:\Program Files\Perl\bin

Thomas