[R] R CMD check problem

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 03/08/2011 12:47 PM, Baidya Nath Mandal wrote:
> Dear Murdoch,
>
> After setting CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning, i re-ran the R CMD check and got
> following message:
>
> * installing *source* package 'mypackage' ...
> ** libs
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'mypackage'
> * removing 'C:/Rpackages/mypackage.Rcheck/mypackage'
>
> The log file contained following.
> * using log directory 'C:/Rpackages/mypackage.Rcheck'
> * using R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
> * using platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
> * using session charset: ISO8859-1
> * checking for file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * this is package 'mypackage' version '1.1'
> * checking package name space information ... OK
> * checking package dependencies ... OK
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
> * checking for executable files ... OK
> * checking whether package 'mypackage' can be installed ... ERROR
> Installation failed.
> See 'C:/Rpackages/mypackage.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.
>
> The src directory contains nothing since all my codes are in R and are in
> the R directory. I have checked that the code works fine in R console. My
> DESCRIPTION file is like this:
> Package: mypackage
> Version: 1.1
> Date: 2011-07-14
> Title: abcd
> Author: B N Mandal<mandal.stat at gmail.com>
> Maintainer: B N Mandal<mandal.stat at gmail.com>
> Depends: R(>= 2.13.0)
> Description: xyz
> License: GPL (>=2)
>
> and NAMESPACE file contains
> export(fun1)
>
> I have checked Rd files are fine.
>
> Can you suggest what may be wrong now?

You should delete your src directory if you don't need it.

Duncan Murdoch
> regards,
> BN Mandal
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >  On 11-08-02 5:26 AM, Baidya Nath Mandal wrote:
> >
> >>  Dear friends,
> >>
> >>  I am building an R package called *mypackage*. I followed every possible
> >>  steps (to my understanding) for the same. I got following problem while
> >>  doing *R CMD check mypackage*.
> >>
> >>  * installing *source* package 'mypackage' ...
> >>  ** libs
> >>  cygwin warning:
> >>    MS-DOS style path detected: C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-213~1.0/etc/**i386/Makeconf
> >>    Preferred POSIX equivalent is:
> >>  /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/R/R-213~**1.0/etc/i386/Makeconf
> >>    CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
> >>  warning.
> >>    Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
> >>      http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-**net/using.html#using-pathnames<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames>
> >>
> >
> >  I believe that warning is ignorable, but you can turn it off using
> >
> >  set CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
> >
> >  It probably didn't cause the error below.
> >
> >
> >   ERROR: compilation failed for package 'mypackage'
> >>
> >
> >  I don't know what did cause that error, but it's likely something in your
> >  src directory of the package.  What do you have there?
> >
> >  Duncan Murdoch
> >
> >   * removing 'C:/Rpackages/mypackage.**Rcheck/mypackage'.
> >>
> >>  What I understood from above is that it is something with PATH variable. I
> >>  had set the following PATH variable:
> >>  C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\**bin;"C:\Program
> >>  Files\R\R-2.13.0\bin";"C:\**Program Files\MiKTeX
> >>  2.9\miktex\bin";%SystemRoot%\**system32;%SystemRoot%;%**
> >>  SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%**SYSTEMROOT%\System32\**
> >>  WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;"C:\**Program
> >>  Files\HTML Help Workshop"
> >>
> >>
> >>  Can anybody suggest what possibly could have gone wrong?
> >>
> >>  Thanks,
> >>  BN Mandal
> >>
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