[R] Building Windows Package

[Alan Arnholt]

Thanks.  It works great now!

Alan

Alan T. Arnholt
Associate Professor
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
Appalachian State University
2003-2004 International Exchange Scholar
Universidad Publica de Navarra - Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
Pamplona,  Spain

TEL : +34 948 169 205
CELL: +34 656 668 621

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> You want the directory in your path specification, not the executables.
> As in
>
> .;C:\RStools;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\perl\bin;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;
> C:\HTMLws;C:\R191\R191\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;
> %SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
> Files\CommonFiles\AdaptecShared\System;
> C:\Program Files\ggobi;C:\Program Files\R\rw1091\library\Rggobi\libs
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Alan Arnholt wrote:
>
> > I am using R-1.9.1 with windows 2000 and trying to build a package.
> > However,
> > when I issue the command:
> >
> > RCMD build --binary BSDA
> >
> > I get:
> >
> >  >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'BSDA'
> >      Formats: chm
> > hhc: not found
> > cp: cannot stat `C:/R191/R191/JUNK/BSDA/chm/BSDA.chm': No such file or
> > direc
> > tory
> > make[1]: *** [chm-BSDA] Error 1
> > make: *** [pkg-BSDA] Error 2
> > *** Installation of BSDA failed ***
> >
> >
> > My path is:
> >
> > .;C:\RStools;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\perl\bin;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\Rstools\zip.exe;
> > C:\Rstools\unzip.exe;C:\HTMLws\hhc.exe;C:\R191\R191\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;
> > %SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
> > Files\CommonFiles\AdaptecShared\System;
> > C:\Program Files\ggobi;C:\Program Files\R\rw1091\library\Rggobi\libs
> >
> > (HTML Help Workshop lives in- "C:\HTMLws\hhc.exe")
> >
> >
> > I have the directory for HTML Help workshop in MkRules set as:
> >
> > # Where does 'HTML Help Workshop' live? (unused if compiled HTML help is
> > # not requested. Spaces allowed.)
> > HHWDIR=C:/HTMLws
> >
> > After I issue RCMD build --binary BSDA and get the error messages, if I go
> > to
> > `C:/R191/R191/JUNK/BSDA/chm/BSDA.hhp' and manually compile the file (with
> > HTML Help
> >
> > workshop) then issue the command RCMD build --binary BSDA   again...the
> > package builds
> > without problems.  Any ideas what I am doing wrong?  Thanks in advance for
> > the help.
> >
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Alan T. Arnholt
> > Associate Professor
> > Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
> > Appalachian State University
> > 2003-2004 International Exchange Scholar
> > Universidad Publica de Navarra - Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
> > Pamplona,  Spain
> >
> > TEL : +34 948 169 205
> > CELL: +34 656 668 621
> >
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> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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