[R] R CMD check, Windows XP, perl

[Prof Brian Ripley]

File::Basename is part of Perl.  Your @ING looks wrong (it contains no
Perl system directories).  Do you have any Perl environmental variables
such as PERL5LIB set?

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, TEMPL Matthias wrote:

> Dear R users and developers,
> 
> I'm trying to build a package. The R CMD build works fine.
> 
> The R CMD check produces allways the following error:
> 
>   ..
>   installing indices
> Can`t locate File/Basename.pm in @ING (@ING contains: D:/../rw1090/share/perl
 d:/../rw1090/lib .) at D:/../rw1090/share/perl/build-help-windows.pl line 20. 
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at D:/../rw1090/share/perl/build-help-windows.pl line 20.
> Make[2]: *** [indices] Error 2
> Make[1] *** [all] Error 2
> Make: *** [pkg-myyfunction] Error 2
> *** Installation of myyfunction failed ***
> 
> ..
> 
> bulid-help-windows.pl at line 20 contains:     use File::Basename;
> 
> library(myyfunction) works, but I have no documentation for my function.
> The documentation in the man-directory contains \name, \alias, \title,
> \description and \keyword, which I have filled correctly.
> 
> I haven't found something to solve my problem in the writing R
> extensions manual or in the readme.package file.

It's a problem with your Perl installation, so try instead your Perl 
documentation.

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