[Rd] Error in R CMD INSTALL on Windows XP using Rtools28

cstrato cstrato at aon.at
Fri Dec 5 22:47:08 CET 2008 

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, cstrato wrote:
>
>> Dear Duncan
>>
>> Thank you for this explicit explanation, you are right:
>>
>> When setting the system variable "Path" (as administrator) in 
>> addition to setting the user variable "PATH" (as user), now 
>> everything works fine.
>>
>> Interestingly, setting the system variable "Path" on my laptop with 
>> Rtools27 seems not to be necessary.
>>
>> May I suggest that  this could be clarified in "R Installation and 
>> Administration" since there only the user variable "PATH" is 
>> mentioned (as far as I see).
>
> In a shell there is only one PATH, so the manual is correct.
I did not say that the manual is not correct, I only suggested to 
clarify the issue, since when running R CMD INSTALL from the Command 
Console I need to set also the system variable "Path".
>
>>
>> Thank you all one more time.
>> Best regards
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>> cstrato wrote:
>>>> Dear all
>>>>
>>>> Thank you all for you fast reply.
>>>>
>>>> As I said, everything on my laptop and Mac is identical, here are 
>>>> my user defined environment variables:
>>>>
>>>> HOME: c:\home\Rabbitus
>>>> INCLUDE: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 
>>>> 9.0\VC\include;C:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include
>>>> LIB: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>>> 9.0\VC\lib;C:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib;C:\root\lib
>>>> PATH: 
>>>> C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Programme\HTML 
>>>> Help Workshop;C:\Programme\R\R-2.8.0\bin;C:\root\bin;
>>>> MSVSPATH: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin
>>>> ROOTSYS: c:\root
>>>> R_LIBS: cd "C:\home\Rabbitus\CRAN"
>>>> TMPDIR: c:\home\Rabbitus\temp
>>>>
>>> I think Brian was right, your PATH is not what is shown above.  
>>> (That doesn't include the Windows directories, for instance.)
>>>
>>> Were you running Rcmd INSTALL from a shell?  Which shell?  What does 
>>> the shell report as your PATH just before running it?
>>> On Windows, the PATH is handled in a fairly complicated way.  I 
>>> believe this description is correct, but it may not apply to all 
>>> Windows versions:
>>>
>>> The thing you set from within the Control Panel only applies to the 
>>> currently running copy of Explorer.  Other applications that are 
>>> currently running (e.g. an existing CMD shell) do not have their 
>>> path updated.
>>>
>>> There are both system and user level PATH settings.  Explorer 
>>> combines them by putting the system settings *first*.
>>> Within a CMD shell, you can override the PATH completely, just by 
>>> setting it to a new set of directories.
>>>
>>> So it looks as though your problem is that your are showing us the 
>>> user settings for the PATH, but not the system settings, and the 
>>> system settings are messing you up.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>> I have just checked again, all variables are identical on both 
>>>> systems.
>>>>
>>>> Could there be another reason?
>>>> What about the registry setting mentioned by Gabor Grothendieck?
>>>>
>>>> Best regaards
>>>> Christian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is a PATH error: you must have Rtools/bin before Windows 
>>>>> system directories in your path.  As the R-admin manual tells you 
>>>>> explicitly ....
>>>>>
>>>>> fortune("WTFM") applies.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, cstrato wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear all
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When trying to install my package on Windows XP on my Mac, I get 
>>>>>> the following error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Making package xps ------------
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> xpsDict.cxx
>>>>>> "C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin/link" /dll 
>>>>>> /def:xps.def /out:xps.dll fp10.obj  -opt:noref  -nologo 
>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Hist -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Graf1 
>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__G3D -include:_G__cpp_setupG__GPad 
>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Tree -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Rint 
>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__PostScript 
>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Matrix -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Physics 
>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Ged  "C:\root/lib/libCore.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libCint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libHist.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGraf3d.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTree.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libRint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPostscript.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libMatrix.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPhysics.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libNet.lib" "C:\root/lib/libRIO.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libMathCore.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGui.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGed.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTreePlayer.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libTreeViewer.lib" *.obj
>>>>>>  Creating library xps.lib and object xps.exp
>>>>>> ... done
>>>>>> installing DLL
>>>>>> installing R files
>>>>>> installing inst files
>>>>>> FIND: Parameterformat falsch
>>>>>> make[2]: *** [C:/home/Rabbitus/CRAN/xps.Rcheck/xps/inst] Error 2
>>>>>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>>> make: *** [pkg-xps] Error 2
>>>>>> *** Installation of xps failed ***
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, when I install my package on my Windows XP laptop, 
>>>>>> everything is ok:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Making package xps ------------
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> xpsDict.cxx
>>>>>> "C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin/link" /dll 
>>>>>> /def:xps.def /out:xps.dll fp10.obj  -opt:noref  -nologo 
>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Hist -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Graf1 
>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__G3D -include:_G__cpp_setupG__GPad 
>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Tree -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Rint 
>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__PostScript 
>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Matrix -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Physics 
>>>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Ged  "C:\root/lib/libCore.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libCint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libHist.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGraf3d.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTree.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libRint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPostscript.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libMatrix.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPhysics.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libNet.lib" "C:\root/lib/libRIO.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libMathCore.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGui.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGed.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTreePlayer.lib" 
>>>>>> "C:\root/lib/libTreeViewer.lib" *.obj
>>>>>>  Creating library xps.lib and object xps.exp
>>>>>> ... done
>>>>>> installing DLL
>>>>>> installing R files
>>>>>> installing inst files
>>>>>> preparing package xps for lazy loading
>>>>>> installing man source files
>>>>>> installing indices
>>>>>> Warning messages:
>>>>>> 1: In file.create(f.tg) :
>>>>>> kann Datei 'c:/Programme/R/R-2.8.0/doc/html/packages.html' nicht 
>>>>>> erzeugen. Grund 'Permission denied'
>>>>>> 2: In tools:::win.packages.html(.Library) :
>>>>>> kann HTML Paketindex nicht aktualisieren
>>>>>> installing help
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'xps'
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To my knowledge I have only made one difference when installing 
>>>>>> everything necessary to build my package:
>>>>>> On my laptop I have installed Rtools27.exe, while on WinXP on my 
>>>>>> Mac I have installed Rtools28.exe.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you know what the reason for the error might be?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>> Christian
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