[R] Package build error

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/9/2009 3:13 PM, Doran, Harold wrote:
> I've run into a problem building a package with R-2.10.0 that I haven't encountered with prior versions. Build and check work fine. However, I encounter an error at the install phase indicating it cannot open a perl script, which is below. For completeness, I've copied my path as well showing that I do have the correct R tools needed, which includes perl.
> 
> 
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin>Rcmd build g:\foo
> * checking for file 'g:\foo/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'g:\foo':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * removing junk files
> tar: foo/NAMESPACE: time stamp 2009-11-09 14:53:03 is 23 s in the future
> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
> * building 'foo_1.0.tar.gz'
> 
> 
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin>Rcmd check g:\foo
> * checking for working pdflatex ...pdflatex: not found
>  NO
> * checking for working latex ...latex: not found
>  NO
> * using log directory 'C:/Program Files/R/R-2.10.0/bin/foo.Rcheck'
> * using R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
> * using session charset: ISO8859-1
> * checking for file 'foo/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * checking extension type ... Package
> * this is package 'foo' version '1.0'
> * checking package name space information ... OK
> * checking package dependencies ... OK
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
> file: not found
> * checking for .dll and .exe files ... OK
> * checking whether package 'foo' can be installed ... OK
> * checking package directory ... OK
> * checking for portable file names ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking top-level files ... OK
> * checking index information ... OK
> * checking package subdirectories ... OK
> * checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
> * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
> * checking whether the name space can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
> * checking for unstated dependencies in R code ... OK
> * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
> * checking replacement functions ... OK
> * checking foreign function calls ... OK
> * checking R code for possible problems ... OK
> * checking Rd files ... OK
> * checking Rd metadata ... OK
> * checking Rd cross-references ... OK
> * checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
> * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
> * checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
> * checking examples ... OK
> 
> 
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin>Rcmd install g:\foo
> Can't open perl script "C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-210~1.0/bin/install": No such file or di
> rectory

The INSTALL script is now internal, and needs to be entered as INSTALL, 
not install.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> ### Here is my windows path, which has perl
> 
> C:\Program Files\Common Files\OTG;c:\Rtools\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;c:\texmf\miktek\bin;c:\cygwin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\subversion\Subversion\bin;C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin; ;C:\PROGRA~1\DISKEE~1\DISKEE~1\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\
> 
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) 
> i386-pc-mingw32 
> 
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.10.0
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