[R] Building R packages under Windows.

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

I presume you got this error message:

Error: environment variable Tmpdir not set (or set to unusable value) 
and not default available.
    at ...\perl/R/Utils.pm line 67

The simplest thing to do is to create a folder named "Temp" in your C 
drive.


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duncan Golicher" <dgoliche at sclc.ecosur.mx>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 8:58 AM
Subject: [R] Building R packages under Windows.


> Hello,
>
> My question is the following. Has anyone put together an "idiots" 
> checklist of the steps needed to build a (small personal) package 
> under Windows, or documented their own experiences of building 
> packages under Windows?
>
> I ask this as last week there were some very interesting comments 
> regarding the advantages of putting personally written functions 
> together as a package rather than sourcing them in at the start of a 
> session using .Rprofile. They inspired me to try to build my own 
> package for a few functions I use in teaching on my laptop running 
> Windows XP . I read and reread "Writing R extensions" I  installed 
> Pearl and tried build on a modified package.skeleton. I fairly 
> quickly worked out I needed to do things like setting Tmpdir as an 
> environment variable, but then I got stuck and frustrated and gave 
> up. I'm sure that with more time I would get things working, but I 
> don't have more time. Could the process be made smoother through 
> better documentation? This may sound like laziness, but I do guess 
> that there are others are in the same position who find that the 
> initiial hassles of building a package (under Windows) leads to a 
> negative cost benefit balance over less elegant  solutions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Duncan Golicher
>
> -- 
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