[R] help on windows 32 compile... R-2.8.1

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 30/12/2008 5:48 PM, James Yoo wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> here is my path:
> I:<DIR>\Rtools\bin;
> i:<DIR>\Rtools\perl\bin;
> I:<DIR>\Rtools\MinGW\bin;
> I:<DIR>\R-2.8.1\bin;

You shouldn't have "<DIR>" in there.  Just put in whatever the directory 
actually is.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> I downloaded my R source from the cran.
> 
> the command I executed from within R-2.8.1\src\gnuwin32 is:
> 
> 'make all recommended'
> 
> I'd love to just install the binary, but I'm trying to compile rpy2 which
> complains about R not being compiled as a library.
> 
> thanks for whatever help you can provide.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>wrote:
> 
>> On 30/12/2008 4:59 PM, James Yoo wrote:
>>
>>> lemme clarify... the last line is:
>>> make[4]: *** No rule to make target `inst/BasicClasses.R', needed by
>>> `<DIR>/R-2.8.1/library/methods/inst'.  Stop.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:23 PM, James Yoo <james.yoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  hello,
>>>> I'm trying compile R-2.8.1.  I've got Rtools installed, paths setup,
>>>> etc...
>>>> the compile progress up to a point and then complains:
>>>>
>>>>  ... DLL made
>>>>  installing DLL
>>>>  collecting R files
>>>>  preparing package methods for lazy loading
>>>>  dumping R code in package `methods'
>>>> initializing class and method definitions ...done
>>>> make[4]: *** No rule to make target `inst/BasicClasses.R', needed by
>>>> `<DIR>'.  Stop.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> any help would be appreciated.
>>>>
>> I've never seen that particular error, but it smells like a problem with
>> your path:  if some R tool is supposed to return a directory name, but yours
>> returns <DIR>, you might see something like that.
>>
>> If you need more help, please post more details:  what is your path, where
>> did you get the R sources, how are you starting the build?
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>