[R] build.pl in building library with Rtools211

[Uwe Ligges]

On 12.08.2010 22:52, Hintzen, Niels wrote:
> R CMD build (lower case) indeed works. I was confused with older versions of Rtools where it didn't matter if you used lower or upper case (as well as that I thought under DOS

Actually, we are using the Windows command shell rather than any DOS.

> upper and lower cases don't make a difference).

Nowadays "build" is internal to R and no longer a filename. And since R 
is case sensitive.....

Best,
Uwe

> I was wrong however.
> Thanks for the help
>
> ________________________________________
> Van: Uwe Ligges [ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de]
> Verzonden: donderdag 12 augustus 2010 22:10
> Aan: Hintzen, Niels
> CC: r-help at r-project.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [R]  build.pl in building library with Rtools211
>
> What did you try?
> R CMD build (build all lower case) does work for me
>
> Uwe Ligges
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> On 09.08.2010 22:30, Hintzen, Niels wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> As I couldn't find any thread on the internet I hope the help-list might help me out.
>>
>> I've tried to update Rtools from R210 used in combination with R2.9.1 to R211 in combination with R2.11.1. However, I do not succeed.
>>
>> I have R2.11.1 running, as well as Inno Setup 5, HTML help and MikTex. A version of Perl is installed too. Environment variable paths are set to link to these directories too.
>>
>> However, when I try to build a library using: R CMD BUILD mypackage it immediately crashes as apparently it cannot find the file 'build' in R-2.11.1/bin. Indeed, this file is not present there (only build.pl) while this file is present in the R-2.9.1/bin directory.
>>
>> What obvious thing am I doing wrong.
>>
>> Your help is much appreciated.
>>
>> With regards,
>>
>> Niels Hintzen
>>
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