[R-pkg-devel] Possible Rtools path problem

[Uwe Ligges]

One of the programs that don't work is find from R tools if it is behind 
C:\Windows\system32 where the ompletely different windows find is found.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


On 25.02.2019 19:06, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 25/02/2019 11:01 a.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>>
>> The R-on-Windows FAQ has recommends to NOT install in a path with spaces.
>>
>> The R Installer on Windows defaults to a path with spaces.
>>
>> I cannot reconcile it either. Such is life, sometimes.
>>
>> But when I had to work on that platform in the past I put my open source
>> stuff into c:/opt/ -- so maybe try reinstalling?
>>
>> Rtools also had (has ?) a gotcha requiring c:/ placement.
>>
> 
> Those might be the problem, but to me it looks more like a path order 
> problem:
> 
>> *My path.getenv is : *
>>
>>
>>  [1] "C:\\Users\\ USER    \\Documents\\R\\R-3.5.2\\bin\\i386"
>>
>>  [2] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Intel\\Intel(R) Management Engine
>> Components\\iCLS\\"
>>  [3] "C:\\Program Files\\Intel\\Intel(R) Management Engine
>> Components\\iCLS\\"
>>  [4] "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32"
>>
>>  [5] "C:\\WINDOWS"
>>
>>  [6] "C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem"
>>
>>  [7] "C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\"
>>
>>  [8] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Intel\\Intel(R) Management Engine
>> Components\\DAL"
>>  [9] "C:\\Program Files\\Intel\\Intel(R) Management Engine
>> Components\\DAL"
>> [10] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Intel\\Intel(R) Management Engine
>> Components\\IPT"
>> [11] "C:\\Program Files\\Intel\\Intel(R) Management Engine
>> Components\\IPT"
>> [12] "C:\\Program Files\\CMake\\bin"
>>
>> [13] "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-3.5.0\\bin"
>>
>> [14] "C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\OpenSSH\\"
>>
>> [15] "C:\\HashiCorp\\Vagrant\\bin"
>>
>> [16] "C:\\ProgramData\\chocolatey\\bin"
>>
>> [17] "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\\130\\Tools\\Binn\\"
>>
>> [18] "C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_181\\bin"
>>
>> [19] "C:\\Qt\\Tools\\QtCreator\\bin"
>>
>> [20] "C:\\Qt\\5.11.1\\msvc2017_64\\bin"
>>
>> [21] "C:\\Windows\\System32"
>>
>> [22] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\GnuWin32\\bin"
>>
>> [23] "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\cmd"
>>
>> [24] "C:\\Rtools\\bin"
>>
>> [25] "C:\\Rtools\\MinGW\\bin"
>>
>> [26] "C:\\Users\\ USER    \\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps"
>>
>> [27] "C:\\Users\\ USER    \\AppData\\Local\\atom\\bin"
>>
>> [28] "C:\\Users\\ USER    \\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\MiKTeX
>> 2.9\\miktex\\bin\\x64\\"
> 
> The OP has 23 directories in the path ahead of the Rtools directories; 
> I'd guess one of them contains a like-named command that is messing 
> things up.  From the message
> 
>> 1: In FUN(X[[i]], ...) : this requires 'nm' to be on the PATH
> 
> my guess would be that there's a bad 'nm.exe' somewhere in there.  The 
> real one is likely in directory 25 (I haven't got current Rtools 
> installed, so can't tell), but if there's another one earlier, things 
> won't work.
> 
> I'd recommend putting the Rtools directories first.  That might mess up 
> one of the other programs that also wants to be first, so I wouldn't do 
> it globally, just set up a batch or cmd file to modify the path when you 
> want to use Rtools.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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