I will repost on R-devel.

-- Bert

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 17/07/2012 18:20, Bert Gunter wrote:
>
>> Folks:
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>>   [1] datasets  splines   grid      tcltk     stats     graphics
>>  grDevices
>>   [8] utils     methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] svSocket_0.9-51 lattice_0.19-26 MASS_7.3-17
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] cluster_1.14.2 Hmisc_3.9-3    R2HTML_2.2     svMisc_0.9-65
>> TinnR_1.0-5
>> [6] tools_2.15.0
>>
>>
>> According to section 1.3 of the WRITING R EXTENSIONS manual, both R CMD
>> build and R CMD check run R with the '--vanilla' option so no user startup
>> files are read.
>>
>> However,
>>
>> 1. If I have an Rprofile.site in my etc startup directory, if I am in the
>> ...\top directory and try to check or build the top\mypackage source
>> package, I can only do so by giving (in the Windows shell, of course) the
>> full path name to R CMD build/check, e.g.
>> R CMD build pathtoTop\top\mypackage  .
>>
>> R CMD build mypackage
>>
>> yields the error:  ERROR  cannot change to directory 'test'
>>
>>
>> 2. However, if I remove (e.g. change the name) of Rprofile.site, then
>>
>> R CMD build/check mypackage
>>
>> works fine. Note that my Rprofile.site file DOES contain a setwd()
>> statement to some other directory; if I comment out this statement, then I
>> also do not need to use the full path name even with the Rprofile.site
>> file
>> there.
>>
>
> Well "don't do that"!
>
>  So my question is: Is the documentation wrong? -- Is there an
>> environmental
>> or option I need to set/change? -- Is this a Windows "feature" subtlety?
>>
>
> Most likely. Do you have multiple architectures installed?  If so, try
> --no-multiarch.
>
> But this really is an R-devel question.
>
>  Many thanks.
>>
>> -- Bert
>>
>>
>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~**ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/>
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>
>
>


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