[R] Building package/DESCRIPTION file not existing?

[Uwe Ligges]

As a first step try to get rid of the warning by doing what it says:
"CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this 
warning."

So set (at least):
CYGWIN=nodosfilewarnings

and go ahead.

Uwe Ligges





On 25.10.2011 02:10, Francois Rousseu wrote:
>
>
> Hello useRs
>
> I am trying to build a package for personal use and for making easier working with other people but I keep getting the same error message about the DESCRIPTION file not existing.
>
> when trying to install from a source tar.gz file:
>
> Error in .read_description(dfile) :
>    file 'C:/Users/Propriétaire/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpHFMONb/R.INSTALL647a3535/mypkg/DESCRIPTION' does not exist
>
> when trying to build a binary version:
>
> Error in .read_description(dfile) :
>    file 'C:/Users/Propriétaire/Documents/RETROBIRD/mypkg/DESCRIPTION' does not exist
>
> In this last case, the DESCRIPTION file is certainly there! Also, help and DESCRIPTION files are edited and my path variable seems to be set correctly as I can access R and tex (form miktex 2.9) from the console. I feel it might be related to language issues (windows on my system is in french, see sessionInfo() at bottom of message) or something about temporary directories, but I really can't find the problem. I've looked into the cygwin warning, but it didn't seemed to be the problem, though I may be wrong.
>
> Any hints? Below is the complete sequence with errors.
>
> Thanks,
> Francois Rousseu
>
>
>> setwd("C:/Users/Propriétaire/Documents/RETROBIRD/")
>> library(devtools)
>> f<- function(x,y) x+y
>> d<- data.frame(a=1, b=2)
>> package.skeleton(list=c("f","d"), name="mypkg")
>
> ## editing of help and description files
>
> Creating directories ...
> Creating DESCRIPTION ...
> Creating Read-and-delete-me ...
> Saving functions and data ...
> Making help files ...
> Done.
> Further steps are described in './mypkg/Read-and-delete-me'.
>
>> build("C:/Users/Propriétaire/Documents/RETROBIRD/mypkg")
>
> * checking for file 'C:\Users\Propriétaire\Documents\RETROBIRD\mypkg/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'mypkg':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
> * looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added
> * building 'mypkg_1.0.tar.gz'
> cygwin warning:
>    MS-DOS style path detected: C:/Users/Propri\xC3\xA9taire/Documents/RETROBIRD/mypkg_1.0.tar.gz
>    Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/Users/Propri\xC3\xA9taire/Documents/RETROBIRD/mypkg_1.0.tar.gz
>    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
> [1] "C:/Users/Propriétaire/Documents/RETROBIRD/mypkg_1.0.tar.gz"
>
>> install.packages(pkgs="mypkg_1.0.tar.gz",lib="C:/Users/Propriétaire/Documents/R/win-library/2.13",repos=NULL,type="source")
>
> * installing *source* package 'mypkg' ...
> Error in .read_description(dfile) :
>    file 'C:/Users/Propriétaire/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpHFMONb/R.INSTALL647a3535/mypkg/DESCRIPTION' does not exist
> ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package 'mypkg'
> * removing 'C:/Users/Propriétaire/Documents/R/win-library/2.13/mypkg'
> Warning messages:
> 1: running command 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-213~1.0/bin/x64/R CMD INSTALL -l "C:/Users/Propriétaire/Documents/R/win-library/2.13"   "mypkg_1.0.tar.gz"' had status 1
> 2: In install.packages(pkgs = "mypkg_1.0.tar.gz", lib = "C:/Users/Propriétaire/Documents/R/win-library/2.13",  :
>    installation of package 'mypkg_1.0.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status
>
>> build("C:/Users/Propriétaire/Documents/RETROBIRD/mypkg",binary=T)
>
> * installing to library 'C:/Users/Propriétaire/Documents/R/win-library/2.13'
> * installing *source* package 'mypkg' ...
> Error in .read_description(dfile) :
>    file 'C:/Users/Propriétaire/Documents/RETROBIRD/mypkg/DESCRIPTION' does not exist
> ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package 'mypkg'
> * removing 'C:/Users/Propriétaire/Documents/R/win-library/2.13/mypkg'
> Error: Command failed (1)
> In addition: Warning message:
> running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-213~1.0/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL "C:\Users\Propriétaire\Documents\RETROBIRD\mypkg" --build' had status 1
>
>> sessionInfo()
>
> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=French_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_Canada.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=French_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=French_Canada.1252
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> other attached packages:
> [1] roxygen2_2.1 digest_0.5.1 devtools_0.4
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] brew_1.0-6     plyr_1.6       RCurl_1.6-10.1 stringr_0.5    tools_2.13.0
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