[R] ROracle installation problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You need to manally configure this, *as it says*.

In fact ROracle/inst/README.windows says

   For details on how to compile ROracle under windows see the file
   src/Makefile.win -- it pretty much documents requirements, etc.

   To run the Windows binary packge ROracle_<version>.zip
   you'll need the client software from Oracle.  You must have the
   $ORACLE_HOME/bin in your path in order for R to find the Oracle's
   runtime libraries.

The path you mention is one of the things ROracle/src/Makefile.win asked 
you to define!

cl is part of Visual C++ (or the Platform SDK).



On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, rmail ye wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I tried to install ROracle package (Windows XP pro), got the following
> errors;
>
> *C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.2\bin>rcmd install "c:\ROracle_0.5-9.tar.gz"*
> *
> installing to 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.2/library'*
>
> *---------- Making package roracle ------------*
> *   **********************************************
>   WARNING: this package has a configure script
>         It probably needs manual configuration
>   ***********************************************
> *  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
>  running src/Makefile.win ...
> cl /Ic:\\PROGRA~1\\R\\R-2.2.1\\include          /MT /Ox /D "MSVC" /D "WIN32"
> /c
> RS-DBI.c
> cl: not found
> make[3]: *** [RS-DBI.obj] Error 127
> make[2]: *** [srcDynlib] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [pkg-roracle] Error 2
> *** Installation of roracle failed ****
> *Removing 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.2/library/roracle'
> Restoring previous 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.2/library/roracle'*
>
> I tried "R CMD INSTALL DBI_0.2-4.tar.gz" and also failed. DBI had been
> installed by "install.packages("DBI")" and it was removed after the mannul
> installation.
>
> I noticed that in the error, the path is R-2.2.1, which is different
> from the default path (R-2.6.2).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sean
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