[R] build R package on winXP

[Jing Wu]

Dear Professor Ripley,

Sorry I didn't get what the manual says. I read readme.package and also R
for Windows Users several times but the pieces didn't come together. Your
guess is right. The TMPDIR was set to c:\Documents
and Settings\ and I didn't know this was a problem since I only checked
Path and didn't see any path to be c:\Documents.... I think the Path
"Program Files" should be substitute with "PROGRA~1" but what I should use
for "Documents and Settings"? Thanks a lot for your help.

Jing

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> The issue here is that some other path has been set to
>
> c:\Documents and Settings\...
>
> and I suspect that to be TMPDIR, as when I do that I get exactly this
> symptom.
>
> Why Jing Wu claims to quote me but excises everything I said, and also
> ignores everything I wrote, I don't know.  He is showing a phenomenal lack
> of respect, and owes us an apology.
>
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
> > Jing Wu wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Jing Wu wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>I wrote an R function and want to build an R package on winXP. I have
> > >>>set my
> > >>>path:C:\bin;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\Tcl\bin;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Program
> > >>>Files\R\rw1081\bin;
> > >>>
> > >>>I tried to run "Rcmd build --help" but failed. Under
> > >>>C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe, I got the error message:
> > >>>Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory.
> > >>
> > > I moved my folder 'IHF' to C:\Program Files\R\rw1081\src\library. Then I
> > > typed the commond:
> > > C:\Program Files\R\rw1081\src\library >Rcmd build --binary IHF
> > > I got this error message:
> > > Error: cannot change to directory 'C:/Documents'.
> >  >
> > > Where did I go wrong? Thanks.
> >
> > I think Prof. Ripley already told you that there are blanks in your path
> > ("Program Files" contains a blank!). Simply use another one without
> > blanks in it.
> >
> > Uwe Ligges
> >
> > > Jing
> > >
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