[R] "R CMD INSTALL in R 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)"

[Uwe Ligges]

Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm moving from R 2.2.1 (Winows XP) to R 2.5.1 and have problems with 
> installing "myfuncs", which worked OK in 2.2.1
> 
> R CMD INSTALL myfuns
> # gives
> installing to ''

Have you set an environment variable such as R_LIBS that is "" rather 
than a sensible directory? (my guess)

Are all the tools up to date?
Do you have another library (except the standard one) defined anywhere?
Can you source() all the R files in your package separately in R-2.5.1?

Uwe Ligges



> 
> 
> ---------- Making package myfuncs ------------
>   adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
>   installing R files
>   installing man source files
>   installing indices
>   installing help
>  >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'myfuncs'
>      Formats: text html latex example chm
>   Bland.plot                        text    html    latex   example
>   Cook.plot                         text    html    latex   example
>   added.var.plot                    text    html    latex   example
>   jit.plot                          text    html    latex   example
>   waldtest                          text    html    latex   example
>   preparing package myfuncs for lazy loading
> Warning in list.files(lib, pattern = paste("^", pkg_regexp, sep = ""), 
> full = TR
> UE) :
>          list.files: '' is not a readable directory
> Error in findpack(package, lib.loc) : there is no package called 
> 'myfuncs'
> Execution halted
> make: *** [lazyload] Error 1
> *** Installation of myfuncs failed ***
> 
> Removing '/myfuncs'
> # end
> 
> "installing to '' " at the start appears to be the problem
> 
> I have install Rtools 2.5.1 appropriately ( I hope)
> my PATH looks like this:
> 
> PATH=C:\Program\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Program\R\Rtools\bin;c:\program\imagemagick-
> 6.1.8-q16;C:\Program\TeXLive\bin\win32;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS
> \system32\WBEM;C:\Program\Aspell\bin;C:\Program\Perl\bin\;C:\Program\HTML 
> Help W
> orkshop;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program\ATI 
> T
> echnologies\ATI Control 
> Panel;C:\Program\R\R-2.5.1\bin;C:\Program\sp2000\cmd;C:\
> Program\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.13\i586-pc-win32;C:\Program\gnuplot\bin;C:\Program\Ma
> yura;C:\Program files\WinEdt Team\WinEdt;C:\Program\Internet 
> Explorer;;C:\Progra
> m\WinBUGS;C:\Program\Adobe\Acrobat 
> 7.0\Reader;C:\Program\QuickTime\QTSystem\
> 
> To me looks as if R don't know where to install - any help available?
> 
> Sincerely Fredrik Lundgren
> 
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