[Rd] Rcmd check fails on Windows Samba network path in R 2.9.1

[Tony Plate]

This error message looks like it comes from 
src/library/tools/R/install.R, which contains the following test:

    if (!.file_test("-d", lib) || file.access(lib, 2L))
        stop("ERROR: no permission to install to directory ",
             sQuote(lib), call. = FALSE)

The function .file_test() is defined earlier in the same file (it looks 
at file.info(lib)$isdir) and appears to be intended to be the same as 
utils:::file_test().

You could start trying to figure out what the problem is by trying these 
calls on the directory in question from an interactive R session.
(They seem to work as intended on my Windows system with a NetApp file 
system mounted on a letter drive.)

-- Tony Plate

Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just updated R from version 2.8.1 to version 2.9.1.  I am 
> running Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3.
>
> With the update, I decided to update a set of packages that I maintain 
> by compiling them for the new version.  Everything worked fine except 
> for one package.  This package is unique (among the six I was working 
> on) in that is stored on a UNIX-based file server that is exported to 
> the Windows network via Samba.  The root of that network path is 
> mapped to drive "N:" on the local machine.
>
> 'Rcmd check' fails for this package under 2.9.1.  The error message in 
> '00install.out'  is:
> "Error: ERROR: no permission to install to directory 
> 'N:/krc/Umpire/R-Package/Umpire.Rcheck'"
>
> 'Rcmd check' works for this package under 2.8.1.
>
> 'Rcmd check' works for this package if the directory is copied onto a 
> local hard drive instead of the network drive.
>
> 'Rcmd build' and 'Rcmd build --binary' work under both versions.
>
> It would be nice if someone could figure out what has changed and fix 
> it....
>
> Best,
>    Kevin Coombes
>
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