[R-pkg-devel] "Setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8" failed and "qpdf28.dll was not found" on Win 10

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Tomas and Ivan:


On 3/31/22 1:52 AM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
> 
> On 3/31/22 08:39, Ivan Krylov wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:46:52 -0500
>> Spencer Graves <spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm getting different errors with MINGW64 and "Git CMD" under Windows
>>> 10
>> All these shortcuts do is launch cmd.exe or bash, optionally after
>> setting %PATH%, optionally in a non-standard terminal application.
>> Evidently, something in the %PATH% set by the shortcuts conflicts with
>> the R CMD check process.
>>
>> For a package that doesn't have any compiled code, there should be no
>> need for these tricks. Just start cmd.exe (for example, using Win+R,
>> "cmd", Enter), navigate to your package and run something like
>> "C:\Program Files\R-version\bin\R.exe" CMD check sos_2.1-4.tar.gz.
>>
>> If you're still having problems, try editing your %PATH% and trimming
>> anything you don't need from there.
>>
>> If you're sure you need a special shortcut to launch a command line to
>> check your package in, try installing Rtools and performing checks from
>> "Rtools bash".
> 
> With Rtools42, you don't need to run the Rtools bash, either, to check 
> packages. You can use cmd.exe (or any other console/shell) or you can 
> run the checks from R  (e.g. via tools::Rcmd). This has more details for 
> R 4.2 with Rtools42 (but the same applies to R-devel):
> 
> https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/howto-R-4.2.html
> 
> With Rtools40 and R 4.0-4.1, this is almost the same but you need to 
> adjust PATH in the running session of R (see 6.3.1 in R admin manual for 
> the respective R release).
> 
> Best
> Tomas

Thanks.  On March 29, I upgraded to the latest version of R, RStudio 
(free version), and installed rtools4.2.  I now have "Rtools", 
"rtools40" and "rtools42" installed in the "C:\" root directory.  In a 
terminal, I got "path", and noted that it does NOT contain anything 
matching "rtools".


After reviewing "howto-R-4.3.html", I ran "tools::Rcmd('check 
sos_2.1-4.tar.gz')" as suggested there, with results given below.  I 
have the sos package installed in "~Documents\R\sos\sos".  I have an R 
project in "~Documents\R\sos", and I used devtools::load_all('sos') to 
get RStudio to recognize the package.  With that, I pressed "Install and 
Restart" and then "Check", and got seemingly the same results as 
recorded below.


	  What do you think?
	  Thanks for the help.
	  Spencer Graves

p.s.  On my Mac, "R CMD check sos_2.1-4.tar.gz" works fine, as does the 
check process from within RStudio.  Something's wrong in my setup on my 
Windows machine.


tools::Rcmd('check sos_2.1-4.tar.gz')

 > tools::Rcmd('check sos_2.1-4.tar.gz')
* using log directory 'C:/Users/spenc/Documents/R/sos/sos.Rcheck'
* using R version 4.1.3 (2022-03-10)
* using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit)
* using session charset: ISO8859-1
* checking for file 'sos/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'sos' version '2.1-4'
* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking if there is a namespace ... OK
* checking for executable files ... OK
* checking for hidden files and directories ... OK
* checking for portable file names ... OK
* checking whether package 'sos' can be installed ... OK
* checking installed package size ... OK
* checking package directory ... OK
* checking 'build' directory ... OK
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking top-level files ... OK
* checking for left-over files ... OK
* checking index information ... OK
* checking package subdirectories ... OK
* checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
* checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
* checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
* checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
* checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
* checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies 
... OK
* checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
* checking dependencies in R code ... OK
* checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
* checking replacement functions ... OK
* checking foreign function calls ... OK
* checking R code for possible problems ... OK
* checking Rd files ... OK
* checking Rd metadata ... OK
* checking Rd cross-references ... OK
* checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
* checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
* checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
* checking Rd contents ... OK
* checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... OK
* checking sizes of PDF files under 'inst/doc' ...Warning in 
system2(qpdf, "--version", TRUE) :
   running command '"C:\Windows\System32\qpdf_bin\qpdf.exe" --version' 
had status 309
Error: invalid version specification 'NA'
Execution halted


R version 4.1.3 (2022-03-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19043)

Matrix products: default

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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
[6] methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] sos_2.1-4  brew_1.0-7

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.1.3 tools_4.1.3

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