[R] Rcmd check, windows xp, perl

[Uwe Ligges]

TEMPL Matthias wrote:

> Dear R users,
> 
> With package.skeleton() i have produced successfully my .Rd´s, ...
> Now i will run Rcmd check on ..\R\bin\
> 
> But Rcmd check (and build) on my Windows XP does not work.
> It`s a problem with "perl".
> (Translated i get the message:
> The instruction Perl is either wrongly written or could not not be found.)
> 
> In help("check") I found this:
>      "These may not work correctly under Windows 95/98/ME because of
>      problems Perl has launching programs on those limited OSes."
> 
> And in the R-devel I found following from Prof. Brian Ripley:
>      "2) On Windows, we did hope to make Rcmd check the standard way. 
>      Unfortunately, a whole series Perl builds were broken, so make 
>      pkgcheck-foo is still preferred." 
> 
> But i can not find something like "pkgcheck" and Rcmd does not work.
> 
> (I use R version 1.9.0 on Windows XP, IBM Computer)

On Windows XP everything is fine.

Please read ..../src/gnuwin32/readme.packages and follow the 
instructions therein exactly.
In particular: Do you have perl installed?

Uwe Ligges


> Can anybody help me please?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthias
> 
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