[R] can't R CMD INSTALL on WinXP

[John Fox]

Dear Andy,

In April, I reported a similar problem to the r-devel list. In my case, I
was using Windows Vista. I've just checked, and I observe the same problem
as you do with randomForest, but can get around it by installing directly
from the .tar.gz archive for the package, that is executing 

	R CMD INSTALL randomForest_4.5-27.tar.gz

I'm also able to build this archive via

	R CMD BUILD randomForest

so this seems a viable workaround.

For what it's worth, I'm currently developing packages from within the
Eclipse IDE, where these problems don't seem to occur.

I hope this helps,
 John

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John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox


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> Behalf Of Liaw, Andy
> Sent: October-14-08 3:05 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] can't R CMD INSTALL on WinXP
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I recently got a laptop upgrade, and had to re-install the tools I used
> for building R packages on Windows (XP SP2).  I'm running into a strange
> problem that I can't resolve.  Can anyone shed on light?  This is with
> R-2.7.2 patched 2008-09-20 r46576, Rtools.zip downloaded a couple of
> weeks ago, and MikTeX 2.7.  The output below was from a cygwin shell
> (PATH modified apropriately), but it's identical to what I get under
> Windows command prompt.  I've also tried adding the -l flag to install
> in another directory that I'm sure is writable, but same problem.
> 
> $ R CMD INSTALL -c randomForest
> installing to 'c:\R\library'
> 
> 
> ---------- Making package randomForest ------------
>   adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
>   installing NAMESPACE filecp: cannot create regular file
> `c:/R/library/randomFo
> rest/NAMESPACE': Permission denied
>  and metadata
> Error in file(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
> Calls: <Anonymous> -> parseNamespaceFile -> parse -> file
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "r") :
>   cannot open file 'c:/R/library/randomForest/NAMESPACE': Permission
> denied
> Execution halted
> make[2]: *** [nmspace] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [pkg-randomForest] Error 2
> *** Installation of randomForest failed ***
> 
> Removing 'c:/R/library/randomForest'
> 
> Best,
> Andy
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