[R] trouble installing R-patched (R-2.12.0) when TMPDIR is specified

[Andrew Yee]

I'm mortified to report that the location I set in TMPDIR was not a
valid directory in the system I was using (I copied it from another
system), so this is a mea culpa on my part!

Andrew

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Andrew Yee wrote:
>
>> I noticed that if I specify the location of TMPDIR in .bashrc as follows on
>> a Linux 64 bit system:
>>
>> export TMPDIR=/store/home/ayee/.tmp
>>
>> I get the following error message when installing R
>
> 'installing' or making?  Looks like the latter.
>
>>
>> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ayee/R-patched/src/library/base'
>> building package 'base'
>> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/ayee/R-patched/src/library/base'
>> /bin/sh: line 8: /store/home/ayee/.tmp/R24402: No such file or directory
>> mv: cannot stat `/store/home/ayee/.tmp/R24402': No such file or directory
>> make[4]: *** [mkR] Error 1
>> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ayee/R-patched/src/library/base'
>> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ayee/R-patched/src/library/base'
>> make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ayee/R-patched/src/library'
>> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ayee/R-patched/src'
>> make: *** [R] Error 1
>> [rambo:~/R-patched]$
>>
>> However, when I don't specify TMPDIR, it installs fine.  Any
>> suggestions/comments?
>
> Check if /store/home/ayee/.tmp exists and is writeable.  I get that message only if it does not.  From the manual
>
>  Ensure that the environment variable TMPDIR is either unset (and /tmp
>  exists and can be written in and scripts can be executed from) or
>  points to a valid temporary directory (one from which execution of
>  scripts is allowed).
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>>
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