[R] package installation from source

[Petr PIKAL]

Hi

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> napsal dne 16.10.2009 17:01:59:

> On 10/16/2009 9:31 AM, Petr PIKAL wrote:
> > Dear all
> > 
> > I noticed from NEWS 2.11.0,dev
> > SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
> > 
> >     o   Packages must have been installed under R 2.10.0 or later, as
> >         the current help system is the only one now supported.
> > 
> > So I tried to follow instructions in manual, Duncan Murdoch 
presentation 
> > and help pages to prepare and accomplish installation of a set of 
> > functions I use. However in R 2.11.0dev and too in R 2.10.0dev I was 
not 
> > able to finish it.
> > 

< snip>

> > 
> >> install.packages("D:/temp/fun", repos=NULL, type="source")
> > sh nenˇ n zvem vnitýnˇho ani vnŘjçˇho pýˇkazu,
> > spustiteln‚ho programu nebo d vkov‚ho souboru.
> > Warning message:
> > In install.packages("D:/temp/fun", repos = NULL, type = "source") :
> >   installation of package 'D:/temp/fun' had non-zero exit status
> > 
> > which basically tells that sh is not a name of command, exe or bat 
file.
> 
> There should be a sh.exe in d:\programy\Rtools\bin if that's where you 
> installed the Rtools.  Are you sure you have the path set the way you 

Yes there is it
 
> list.files("D:/programy/Rtools/bin")
 [1] "basename.exe"       "cat.exe"            "cmp.exe" 

< snip> 
40] "sh.exe"             "sort.exe"           "tar.exe" 
[43] "texindex.exe"       "touch.exe"          "tr.exe" 
[46] "uniq.exe"           "unzip.exe"          "wc.exe" 
[49] "zip.exe" 
> 

> think you do?  Remember that PATH is an environment variable, and 
> environment variable settings are local:  so setting the PATH in a CMD 
> window has no effect on R or any other command window.  You need to use 

Hm. It is a problem. I do not have admin rights. Therefore I set PATH in 
the command window and used the same window to issue R CMD INSTALL fun, 
but it gave me the same error message as above. 

> the Control Panel to set the default system path, and then restart any 
> process that needs to see it.

As I can not change system wide PATH I tried to set user PATH. This 
resulted in modified PATH value but the required values for installation 
was at the end and I got the same error.

As I am not sure if our IT guys change the system path for me 
(permanently) I would like to know if there is some workaround like few 
years before with make, make install etc. Maybe more complicated but 
without need to fiddle with PATH value.

Thank you and best regards
Petr

> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> > 
> > The same I get when I try to run
> > 
> > D:\temp R CMD INSTALL fun
> > 
> > Please can you give me any suggestion for making installation work. I 
> > remember when going from 1.9 to 2.0 versions it was also necessary to 
> > install my bunch of functions, however at that time I need to use 
> > something like make, make install  or so and gather all necessary 
programs 
> > myself.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Petr
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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