[R-SIG-Mac] Problems with R CMD config

[Ken Beath]

> On 1 Sep 2016, at 5:46 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 01/09/2016 00:43, Ken Beath wrote:
>> I’m trying to use STAN which uses R CMD config to check the availability of the compilers.
>> 
>> This works fine on my MacBook but on my iMac I have the documents on a separate hard drive. Within R CMD config it uses the location of the home  folder which because of my choice of name of hard drive has a space in it, and that causes problems with the batch file. In the following the volume should be Ken Main.
>> 
>> Kens-iMac:~ kjbeath1$ R CMD config CXX
>> make: /Volumes/Ken: No such file or directory
>> make: *** No rule to make target `/Volumes/Ken'.  Stop.
>> 
>> For those who are wondering why I don’t just change the name, this produces problems with other software.
>> 
>> Any ideas on a solution?
> 
> Edit the script config.
> 
> We have nothing to reproduce here (what is your home directory?), but I am guessing that in
> 
>    elif test -f "${HOME}/.R/Makevars-${R_PLATFORM}"; then
>      makefiles="${makefiles} -f ${HOME}/.R/Makevars-${R_PLATFORM}"
>    elif test -f "${HOME}/.R/Makevars"; then
>      makefiles="${makefiles} -f ${HOME}/.R/Makevars"
> 
> you need \"${HOME}\" twice.
> 

Yes, works perfectly.