Dear Prof. Ripley,

I will follow your suggestion and send a follow-up message later on.

Thanks,
Sean

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> You need to manally configure this, *as it says*.
>
> In fact ROracle/inst/README.windows says
>
>   For details on how to compile ROracle under windows see the file
>   src/Makefile.win -- it pretty much documents requirements, etc.
>
>   To run the Windows binary packge ROracle_<version>.zip
>   you'll need the client software from Oracle.  You must have the
>   $ORACLE_HOME/bin in your path in order for R to find the Oracle's
>   runtime libraries.
>
> The path you mention is one of the things ROracle/src/Makefile.win asked
> you to define!
>
> cl is part of Visual C++ (or the Platform SDK).
>
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, rmail ye wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I tried to install ROracle package (Windows XP pro), got the following
> > errors;
> >
> > *C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.2\bin>rcmd install "c:\ROracle_0.5-9.tar.gz"*
> > *
> > installing to 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.2/library'*
> >
> > *---------- Making package roracle ------------*
> > *   **********************************************
> >   WARNING: this package has a configure script
> >         It probably needs manual configuration
> >   ***********************************************
> > *  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
> >  running src/Makefile.win ...
> > cl /Ic:\\PROGRA~1\\R\\R-2.2.1\\include          /MT /Ox /D "MSVC" /D
> "WIN32"
> > /c
> > RS-DBI.c
> > cl: not found
> > make[3]: *** [RS-DBI.obj] Error 127
> > make[2]: *** [srcDynlib] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> > make: *** [pkg-roracle] Error 2
> > *** Installation of roracle failed ****
> > *Removing 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.2/library/roracle'
> > Restoring previous 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.2/library/roracle'*
> >
> > I tried "R CMD INSTALL DBI_0.2-4.tar.gz" and also failed. DBI had been
> > installed by "install.packages("DBI")" and it was removed after the
> mannul
> > installation.
> >
> > I noticed that in the error, the path is R-2.2.1, which is different
> > from the default path (R-2.6.2).
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Sean
> >
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