[R] Cannot Build R From Source - Windows XP

[Steve Pederson]

Thanks for the help. That sorted it out straight away.

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 14/07/2010 12:01 PM, Steve Pederson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can't seem to install R from source. I've downloaded the latest 
>> Rtools211.exe from http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ & done a 
>> full installation of that and Inno Setup.
>>
>> I have set R_HOME as C:\R (and also tried using C:\R\R-2.11.1)
>>
>> After successfully running 'tar xf R-2.11.1.tar.gz' the modifications 
>> I have made and saved as MkRules.local are:
>> BUILD_HTML = YES & ISDIR=C:/Program Files/Inno Setup 5
>>
>> I've then run 'make all recommended' from R_HOME\src\gnuwin32 and it 
>> runs nicely for ages, until I get the following message:
>>
>>
>> building package 'base'
>> cannot create /tmp/R612: directory nonexistent
>> mv: cannot stat '/tmp/R612': No such file or directory
>>   
> 
> R thinks your temporary directory is called /tmp, but there's no such 
> directory on your system.  R looks for a temporary directory in the 
> environment variables
> TMPDIR, TMP, TEMP.  Set TMPDIR to the path to a writable directory and 
> you should get past this error.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
>> make[3]: ***[mkR] Error 1
>> make[2]: ***[all] Error 2
>> make[1]: ***[R] Error 1
>> make: ***[all] Error 2
>>
>>
>> Sometimes the number changes to /tmp/R5776, or something similar but I 
>> don't think that's the issue.
>>
>>
>> My current setting for PATH are:
>> c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\perl\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Program 
>> Files\PC Connectivity Solution\;C:\Program Files\Common 
>> Files\ArcSoft\Bin;%GTK_BASEPATH%\bin;c:\program 
>> files\imagemagick-6.4.1-q16;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;c:\dev-cpp\bin\;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727;C:\Program 
>> Files\Common Files\DivX Shared\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\
>>
>>
>> FWIW, It's a 4yo Dell laptop & I've come across a few quirks with 
>> installing software over the years. I had also previously installed 
>> 2.11.1 from the windows executable, but this was uninstalled using the 
>> uninstall function that comes with it. I'm trying to rebuild to begin 
>> incorporating some calls to C I'm working on.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Steve
>>
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