[R] Error Building From Source

[Uwe Ligges]

Alan Arnholt wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> I am trying to build R-2.0.1 from source on windows.  My path is set to:
> 
> .;C:\RStools;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\perl\bin;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\HTMLws\;C:\R201\R201\bin;%System
> Root%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\
> Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System;C:\LINGO9\
> 
> and Mkrules has been edited and reads
> 
> # path (possibly full path) to same version of R on the host system
> R_EXE=C:/R201/R201/bin

The corresponding section's header is
"cross-compilation settings", hence don't change it if compiling on 
Windows. "R" is perfect, here.
You don't need to specify this path anywhere in MkRules.

Uwe Ligges



> when I type make I get the following:
> 
> ---------- Making package base ------------
>   adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
> C:/R201/R201/bin: not found
> make[4]: *** [frontmatter] Error 127
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [pkg-base] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [rpackage] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Any hints as to why it says it can not find C:/R201/R201/bin?  Any help
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Alan
> 
> Alan T. Arnholt
> Associate Professor
> Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
> Appalachian State University
> 
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