Thanks for your reply.

here is my path:
I:<DIR>\Rtools\bin;
i:<DIR>\Rtools\perl\bin;
I:<DIR>\Rtools\MinGW\bin;
I:<DIR>\R-2.8.1\bin;

I downloaded my R source from the cran.

the command I executed from within R-2.8.1\src\gnuwin32 is:

'make all recommended'

I'd love to just install the binary, but I'm trying to compile rpy2 which
complains about R not being compiled as a library.

thanks for whatever help you can provide.


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>wrote:

> On 30/12/2008 4:59 PM, James Yoo wrote:
>
>> lemme clarify... the last line is:
>> make[4]: *** No rule to make target `inst/BasicClasses.R', needed by
>> `<DIR>/R-2.8.1/library/methods/inst'.  Stop.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:23 PM, James Yoo <james.yoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying compile R-2.8.1.  I've got Rtools installed, paths setup,
>>> etc...
>>> the compile progress up to a point and then complains:
>>>
>>>  ... DLL made
>>>  installing DLL
>>>  collecting R files
>>>  preparing package methods for lazy loading
>>>  dumping R code in package `methods'
>>> initializing class and method definitions ...done
>>> make[4]: *** No rule to make target `inst/BasicClasses.R', needed by
>>> `<DIR>'.  Stop.
>>>
>>>
>>> any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>
> I've never seen that particular error, but it smells like a problem with
> your path:  if some R tool is supposed to return a directory name, but yours
> returns <DIR>, you might see something like that.
>
> If you need more help, please post more details:  what is your path, where
> did you get the R sources, how are you starting the build?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>

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