[Rd] Windows, RCMD INSTALL and path (PR#939)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 11 May 2001 david.firth@nuffield.oxford.ac.uk wrote:

> Full_Name: David Firth
> Version: 1.2.3
> OS: Windows NT4
> Submission from: (NULL) (163.1.103.107)
>
>
> Two things that look like bugs:
>
> 1.  RCMD INSTALL does not seem to cope with quotes in the Windows path.  With my

I'd say the other way round. Nowhere does it say that it will work with
quotes.

> path set to
>
>   PATH="C:\R\Rtools";"C:\R\rw1023\bin";C:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\
>
>   mingw2\bin
>
> I get, for example,
>
>   C:\R>RCMD INSTALL boot
>   RCMD INSTALL boot
>
>   make: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/R/rw1023/src/gnuwin32'
>   make DLLNM=  EXTRADOCS= \
>     -C C:/R/boot PKG=boot RHOME=C:/R/rw1023 RLIB=C:/R/rw1023/library \
>     -f C:/R/rw1023/src/gnuwin32/MakePkg
>   make: make: Command not found
>   make: *** [pkg-boot] Error 127
>   make: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/R/rw1023/src/gnuwin32'
>   *** Installation of boot failed ***
>
> But if I remove the quotes, as in
>
>   PATH=C:\R\Rtools;C:\R\rw1023\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\
>
>   mingw2\bin
>
> then all goes as it should.
>
> (Why do I have the quotes there anyway, you ask?  Well, I started out with
>
>   PATH="C:Program Files\R\Rtools";"C:Program
> Files\R\rw1023\bin";C:\Perl\bin\;C:\
>   WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\mingw2.bin
>
> but then RCMD INSTALL failed even more rapidly, presumably on account of the
> space in the directory name?)
>
> If this can't be fixed, perhaps add a note in the documentation about these
> things?  (I looked in "Writing R Extensions" but found no mention of this
> problem.)

We didn't ask you to stop beating your wife because it never occurred to
us that you would....

Note, though, this is a problem with the tools, not with anything we
provide, and the rw-FAQ does warn about spaces in paths.  Latex, for
example, will fail with spaces in path names.

Also

Building
--------

You also need the R source (R-1.3.0.tgz).

Then: untar R-1.3.0.tgz somewhere (with no spaces in the path names),

might be hint.

>
> 2.  A smaller thing I noticed in help(INSTALL): under "Usage:" it should say
> "Rcmd", not "Rcnd".

Already fixed.


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