[R] Package build error

[Doran, Harold]

Indeed, that's the solution. I normally take great care in the windows guidelines for package build. There are many nuances, and so your continued support on this is much appreciated. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 3:42 PM
> To: Doran, Harold
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Package build error
> 
> On 11/9/2009 3:13 PM, Doran, Harold wrote:
> > I've run into a problem building a package with R-2.10.0 
> that I haven't encountered with prior versions. Build and 
> check work fine. However, I encounter an error at the install 
> phase indicating it cannot open a perl script, which is 
> below. For completeness, I've copied my path as well showing 
> that I do have the correct R tools needed, which includes perl.
> > 
> > 
> > C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin>Rcmd build g:\foo
> > * checking for file 'g:\foo/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> > * preparing 'g:\foo':
> > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> > * removing junk files
> > tar: foo/NAMESPACE: time stamp 2009-11-09 14:53:03 is 23 s in the 
> > future
> > * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
> > * checking for empty or unneeded directories
> > * building 'foo_1.0.tar.gz'
> > 
> > 
> > C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin>Rcmd check g:\foo
> > * checking for working pdflatex ...pdflatex: not found  NO
> > * checking for working latex ...latex: not found  NO
> > * using log directory 'C:/Program Files/R/R-2.10.0/bin/foo.Rcheck'
> > * using R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
> > * using session charset: ISO8859-1
> > * checking for file 'foo/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> > * checking extension type ... Package
> > * this is package 'foo' version '1.0'
> > * checking package name space information ... OK
> > * checking package dependencies ... OK
> > * checking if this is a source package ... OK
> > file: not found
> > * checking for .dll and .exe files ... OK
> > * checking whether package 'foo' can be installed ... OK
> > * checking package directory ... OK
> > * checking for portable file names ... OK
> > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> > * checking top-level files ... OK
> > * checking index information ... OK
> > * checking package subdirectories ... OK
> > * checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
> > * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
> > * checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
> > * checking whether the package can be loaded with stated 
> dependencies 
> > ... OK
> > * checking whether the name space can be loaded with stated 
> > dependencies ... OK
> > * checking for unstated dependencies in R code ... OK
> > * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
> > * checking replacement functions ... OK
> > * checking foreign function calls ... OK
> > * checking R code for possible problems ... OK
> > * checking Rd files ... OK
> > * checking Rd metadata ... OK
> > * checking Rd cross-references ... OK
> > * checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
> > * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
> > * checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
> > * checking examples ... OK
> > 
> > 
> > C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin>Rcmd install g:\foo Can't open perl 
> > script "C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-210~1.0/bin/install": No such file or di 
> > rectory
> 
> The INSTALL script is now internal, and needs to be entered 
> as INSTALL, not install.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> > 
> > ### Here is my windows path, which has perl
> > 
> > C:\Program Files\Common 
> > 
> Files\OTG;c:\Rtools\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;c:\texmf\mikt
> > 
> ek\bin;c:\cygwin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\Syste
> > m32\Wbem;C:\subversion\Subversion\bin;C:\Program 
> Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin; 
> > ;C:\PROGRA~1\DISKEE~1\DISKEE~1\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\
> > 
> > 
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
> > i386-pc-mingw32
> > 
> > locale:
> > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
> > [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
> > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
> > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    
> > 
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  
> methods   base     
> > 
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] tools_2.10.0
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