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

[Michael Dewey]

Dear Spencer

If I understand correctly your package sos does not have compiled code 
so as someone suggested earlier you do not need Rtools at all. The only 
drawback is that when I check my packages I get a note that it cannot 
find qpdf but they all pass checks on CRAN (which obviously does have qpdf).

Michael

On 31/03/2022 22:58, Spencer Graves wrote:
> 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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Michael
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