[R-SIG-Mac] Built on Mac, Installing on Windows - should this work?

Bryan Hanson hanson at depauw.edu
Mon Nov 30 21:11:22 CET 2009 

You guys are great!  I understand the nuances between platforms much better
now (the Mac environment does a lot for you in the background, which I had
not given much thought to). Success came with unpacking the .zip file into
the library folder.  Then I still had to install all the dependencies before
my package would "activate", but I'm in business now.  Thanks a bunch to
each of you!  Bryan


On 11/30/09 2:46 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:

> Bryan,
> 
> there are several issues, but let's start with the most hopeful one:
> 
>> install.packages(pkgs = "ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type
>> = "source")
> * installing *source* package 'ChemoSpec' ...
> ** R
> ** data
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Warning in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE,
> lib.loc = lib.loc) :
>   there is no package called 'chemometrics'
> Error : package 'chemometrics' could not be loaded
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'ChemoSpec'
> * removing 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.0/library/ChemoSpec'
> * restoring previous 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.0/library/ChemoSpec'
> 
> As Brian pointed out you can now install source packages on Windows --
> the only reason it fails is that you are missing dependent packages -
> "chemometrics" in this case. So install all dependencies first and you
> don't have to worry about binary packages - just use the source and
> all will be well.
> 
> Then all the other issues are that you're trying to install the binary
> package the wrong way. In fact the easiest way to install is to simply
> unpack in the  "library" directory. The problems you encountered come
> from the name mismatches - the name of the file does really matter and
> your "SU" / "UL" postfix that you added manually is breaking it.
> Please use the original names!
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 14:30 , Bryan Hanson wrote:
> 
>> Hello Folks, thanks for the suggestions.  I did what Simon
>> suggested.  And I
>> did what Ducan suggested, namely to use Uwe's building service.  I
>> think
>> both of these produced the same set of files (though I don't know
>> how to
>> check rigorously).  So I moved these two archives, along with my
>> source
>> archive, over to the Windows machine.  I tried installing all of
>> them via
>> the GUI dialog boxes, and when that didn't work, I tried doing it
>> from the
>> command line.
>> 
>> I'm pretty certain I'm now no longer in the Mac realm :-( and I'm
>> pretty
>> certain I'm missing something obvious.  It looks like it can't find
>> the
>> file, but the paths and names look right to me.  If one unstuffs these
>> manually they look like they have the files.  Any suggestions would be
>> appreciated.   The transcript from what I did is immediately below.
>> 
>> Thanks, Bryan
>> *************
>> Bryan Hanson
>> Acting Chair
>> Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
>> DePauw University, Greencastle IN USA
>> 
>>> getwd()
>> [1] "C:/Documents and Settings/Chemistry 1/Desktop"
>>> list.files()
>> [1] "ChemoSpec_1.31-SU.zip" "ChemoSpec_1.31-UL.zip"
>> "ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz"
>> "outcome.txt"
>> 
>> # the next few steps are attempts at manual installations:
>>> install.packages(pkgs = "ChemoSpec_1.31-SU.zip", repos = NULL)
>> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In gzfile(file, "r") :
>>  cannot open compressed file 'ChemoSpec_1.31-SU/DESCRIPTION', probable
>> reason 'No such file or directory'
>>> install.packages(pkgs = "ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type =
>> "source")
>> * installing *source* package 'ChemoSpec' ...
>> ** R
>> ** data
>> ** inst
>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
>> Warning in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE,
>> lib.loc = lib.loc) :
>>  there is no package called 'chemometrics'
>> Error : package 'chemometrics' could not be loaded
>> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'ChemoSpec'
>> * removing 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.0/library/ChemoSpec'
>> * restoring previous 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-210~1.0/library/ChemoSpec'
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages(pkgs = "ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz", repos = NULL,  :
>>  installation of package 'ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz' had non-zero exit
>> status
>> 
>> # the next few are the attempts with the GUI dialog boxes
>>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
>> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In gzfile(file, "r") :
>>  cannot open compressed file 'ChemoSpec_1.31-SU/DESCRIPTION', probable
>> reason 'No such file or directory'
>>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
>> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In gzfile(file, "r") :
>>  cannot open compressed file 'ChemoSpec_1.31-UL/DESCRIPTION', probable
>> reason 'No such file or directory'
>>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
>> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
>> In addition: Warning messages:
>> 1: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip
>> file
>> 2: In gzfile(file, "r") :
>>  cannot open compressed file 'ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION',
>> probable
>> reason 'No such file or directory'
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>> 
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> States.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> 
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.10.0
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/30/09 11:48 AM, "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 30/11/2009 11:10 AM, Bryan Hanson wrote:
>>>>> Hi R Mac Folks... A question about using Mac-built pkgs on the
>>>>> dreaded
>>>>> Windows machines.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have successfully checked, built and installed a package on my
>>>>> Mac.  The
>>>>> package tarball is at github.com/bryanhanson/ChemoSpec if you
>>>>> care to try
>>>>> installing it.  It was checked and built with defaults, so I did
>>>>> 
>>>>>> R CMD check ChemoSpec
>>>>>> R CMD build ChemoSpec
>>>>> 
>>>>> And everything was fine.  I can install it and run it on my Mac
>>>>> no problem.
>>>>> I believe it is a ³source² package ­ there is no compiled code,
>>>>> it¹s all
>>>>> straightfoward R.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now, I want to test the installation on Windows (because students
>>>>> have to
>>>>> use it next semester).  I¹m having a variety of problems getting it
>>>>> upzipped
>>>>> and installed.  Before I spend a lot of time trouble shooting the
>>>>> Windows
>>>>> aspect, and here¹s my question, should this package as I built it
>>>>> and so
>>>>> forth work on  Windows without modification?  Or do I have to do
>>>>> the
>>>>> check/build with different options?  Or do I have to do the
>>>>> entire process
>>>>> on a Windows machine (pray not!).  I¹ve looked around in the
>>>>> manuals and
>>>>> help pages a bit, there doesn¹t seem to be any hint that a
>>>>> different
>>>>> process
>>>>> is needed.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The source tarball (the .tar.gz file) would be fine on Windows,
>>>> but most
>>>> Windows users don't have the tools to install it.  Since you don't
>>>> have any
>>>> compiled code it's probably not hard to put together a zip file
>>>> equivalent to
>>>> what R CMD INSTALL --binary would produce on Windows, but it's
>>>> probably
>>>> easier to use Uwe Ligge's package building service, available at
>>>> http://129.217.207.166.
>>> 
>>> I agree with the conclusion (not least as it checks the package works
>>> on Windows), but in current R (2.10.0) you actually don't need any
>>> extra tools to install such a source package on Windows.
>>> 
>>> It's all in the manuals ....
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>> By the way, I can manually get the entire package intact as text
>>>>> files to
>>>>> the proper Windows directory, but R claims it is not a valid
>>>>> installed
>>>>> package.  Any of the RGui Windows means of installing the package
>>>>> give
>>>>> various problems.  I¹ll keep trouble shooting these but I wanted
>>>>> to double
>>>>> check that what I am trying to do should work.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, Bryan
>>>>> **************
>>>>> Bryan Hanson
>>>>> Acting Chair
>>>>> Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
>>>>> DePauw University
>>>>> 602 S. College Avenue
>>>>> Greencastle, IN 46135
>>>>> PHONE     765-658-4602
>>>>> FAX     765-658-6084
>>>>> hanson at depauw.edu
>>>>> http://academic.depauw.edu/~hanson/deadpezsociety.html
>>>>> http://www.depauw.edu/acad/chemistry/
>>>>> http://academic.depauw.edu/~hanson/UMP/index.html
>>>>> 
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