[Rd] Building packages on Windows fails

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Peter Kleiweg wrote:

>
> What has changed in R for Windows from version 1.7.1 to
> 2.2.0 that won't allow me to build binary packages?

Many things have changed; I don't know which is causing the failure you 
see.  One change is that instructions are now collected in the 
Installation and Administration manual. Try following the setup 
instructions there and see if it still fails.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> On 1.7.1 I built a packge with this command:
>
>    Rcmd build --force --binary iL04
>
> On 2.2.0 this fails. First I had to copy sh.exe from d:\bin to
> c:\bin. This got me over the first hurdle. But then I got stuck
> at a later point. Here are the last lines of output:
>
> ---------- Making package iL04 ------------
> latex: not found
>  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
> latex: not found
> latex: not found
> latex: not found
>  installing R files
> latex: not found
>  installing demos
>  installing data files
> latex: not found
>  installing man source files
>  installing indices
> cat: d:/R-2.2.0/library/*/CONTENTS: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [indices] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [pkg-iL04] Error 2
> *** Installation of iL04 failed ***
>
> -- 
> Peter Kleiweg
>
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