[R] building packages in Windows under R 1.2.1

[Uwe Ligges]

"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> > Looks like this is not the only problem: Since R-1.2.0 I didn't
> > installed packages from source in windows -- and I am sure, it worked
> > for me with R-1.2.0. But it didn't work with R-1.2.1 any more (see
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > t:/r/bin/Rterm: not found
> > make[1]: *** [t:/r/library/acepack/zzzz] Error 127
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/user/ligges/R/R.INSTALL/acepack'
> > make: *** [pkg-acepack] Error 2
> > make: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/t/r/src/gnuwin32'
> > *** Installation of acepack failed ***
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Hmmm ... "t:" is a "drive letter", right? Is this a networked drive? I don't
> usually see drive letters that far down in the alphabet for drives on the
> machine where I'm running. Local drives are usually a: (the floppy), c: (the
> main hard drive), etc. If it is a networked drive, check to see that it's
> connected to the right share on the right server.

Right, a network connection. 
But the same happens if R is installed on drive c: 
(I already described that on R-help).


> I have extensive experience with ActivePerl from ActiveState, but there is
> another version. The two are supposed to be (more or less) the same, but there
> may be one subtle difference that is enough to sink R. Which one do you have?

C:\>perl --version

This is perl, v5.6.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2000, Larry Wall

Binary build 623 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp.
http://www.ActiveState.com
Built 18:59:19 Dec 15 2000


Uwe
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