[R] building windows binary of a package

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Tue Jan 20 18:50:40 CET 2009


On 1/20/2009 12:17 PM, Li, Xiaochun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build a Windows binary from a source package using R-2.8.1. I downloaded Rtools29 and set up the path. 
> I got this error when running R CMD INSTALL,
> 
> make: sh.exe: Command not found
> make: *** [pkg-SurvCov] Error 127
> *** Installation of SurvCov failed ***
> 
> However, I can run 'sh' at the 'cmd' window. Any tips will be greatly appreciated.  

I haven't seen that particular error before, but it is almost always a 
PATH problem when this sort of thing happens.

Duncan Murdoch




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