[R] package building problem on windows

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sun Aug 17 14:08:50 CEST 2008


Does your setting of TMPDIR, TEMP or TMP have a space in it?

>From the R-admin manual:

   You may need to set TMPDIR to the absolute path to a suitable temporary
   directory: the default is 'c:/TEMP'.  (Use forward slashes and do not
   use a path including spaces.)

The documentation is that manual, not 'Murdoch's page', whatever that is.

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Christophe Dutang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to compile the package biglm, but when I build it with R CMD build 
> biglm, it failed :
>
> C:\LOCAL\c-dutang\code\R\biglm2>R CMD build biglm
> * checking for file 'biglm/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'biglm':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: Can't 
> op
> n C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: No such file or directory
> C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: Can't open C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: No such 
> file
> or directory
> C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: Can't open C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: No such 
> file
> or directory
> OK
> * cleaning src
> * removing junk files
> C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: Can't open C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: No such 
> file
> or directory
> C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: Can't open C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: No such 
> file
> or directory
> C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: Can't open C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: No such 
> file
> or directory
> Error: cannot open file 'biglm/DESCRIPTION' for reading
>
> But when I install it, the installation is performed but I still have 'can't 
> open' and 'no such file or directory'.
>
> C:\LOCAL\c-dutang\code\R\biglm2>R CMD install biglm
> C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: Can't open C:/DOCUME~1/c-dutang/Local: No such 
> file
> or directory
> installing to ''
>
>
> ---------- Making package biglm ------------
> adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
> installing NAMESPACE file and metadata
> making DLL ...
> gcc  -std=gnu99  -IC:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.7.1/include     -O3 -Wall  -c 
> boundedQR.c -
> o boundedQR.o
> gfortran   -O3  -c boundedQRf.f -o boundedQRf.o
> windres --preprocessor="gcc -E -xc -DRC_INVOKED" -I 
> C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.7.1/includ
> e  -i biglm_res.rc -o biglm_res.o
> gcc  -std=gnu99  -shared -s  -o biglm.dll biglm.def boundedQR.o boundedQRf.o 
> big
> lm_res.o  -LC:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.7.1/bin   -lgfortran -lR
> ... DLL made
> installing DLL
> installing R files
> installing man source files
> installing indices
> installing help
>>>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'biglm'
>    Formats: text html latex example chm
> adding MD5 sums
>
> * DONE (biglm)
>
> Actually, I have no directory local in 'document and settings' but a 
> directory local settings exists. What's wrong with my installation? I install 
> all tools as recommanded on Murdoch's page. Maybe R CMD build tries to use a 
> temp file? in 'document and settings'?
>
> I use R 2.7.1 with Windows xp pro.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Christophe
>
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