From jgarcia at ija.csic.es  Thu Sep 30 20:24:58 2010
From: jgarcia at ija.csic.es (jgarcia at ija.csic.es)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:24:58 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] bulding a package for Windows (path problem?)
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Thanks, Uwe. It now INSTALLs perfectly with Rtools installed.
Best wishes,
Javier
---
> You need a recent version of the Rtools from Duncan Murdoch's web page.
> It includes the file.exe required for checking.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
> On 30.09.2010 18:38, jgarcia at ija.csic.es wrote:
>> Thanks to Duncan Murdoch and Prof. Ripley for the previous answers. I
>> apologize as I was not updated with the R version. Now with R 2.12.0
>> alpha
>> the package builds [Windows XP] but it still fails when checking:
>>
>> ---
>> C:\home\javier\Documents\hydrology\development>R CMD check hydrosim
>> * using log directory
>> 'C:/home/javier/Documents/hydrology/development/hydrosim.Rcheck'
>> * using R version 2.12.0 alpha (2010-09-28 r53056)
>> * using platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
>> * using session charset: ISO8859-1
>> * checking for file 'hydrosim/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>> * this is package 'hydrosim' version '1.0-0'
>> * checking package dependencies ... OK
>> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
>> Error in system2("file", "--version", TRUE, TRUE) : '"file"' not found
>> Execution halted
>>
>> C:\home\javier\Documents\hydrology\development>file
>> "file" no se reconoce como un comando interno o externo,
>> programa o archivo por lotes ejecutable.
>> ---
>>
>> As you may guess, the above means "'file' is not recognized as an
>> internal
>> or external command, operable program or batch file".
>>
>> Could you help with this? Perhaps the string "file" should have been
>> substituted by a file name elsewhere before? Could the white spaces in
>> "C:\Archivos de programa\..." be the source of the problem?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Javier
>> ---
>>
>>> jgarcia at ija.csic.es wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am working on a package with several hydrological functions which
>>>> builds/checks/INSTALLs gracefully for a Linux box. However, for a
>>>> Microsoft Windows XP [Versi?n 5.1.2600] I have the error:
>>>>
>>>> C:\Archivos de programa\R\R-2.9.2\bin>R CMD build
>>>> C:\home\javier\Documents\hydrology\development\hydrosim
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you really using version 2.9.2?  If so, I think you're on your own.
>>> The current release is 2.11.1, and our efforts are concentrated on
>>> testing the alpha/beta of 2.12.0 now.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
>>>> Can't locate R/Dcf.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C
>>>> /ARCHIV~1/R/R-29~1.2/share/perl; /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin
>>>> /usr/lib/per
>>>> l5/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
>>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10
>>>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
>>>> /
>>>> usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10
>>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .)
>>>>   at C:\ARCHIV~1\R\R-29~1.2/bin/build line 28.
>>>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\ARCHIV~1\R\R-29~1.2/bin/build
>>>> line
>>>> 28.
>>>>
>>>> However, the content of the first mentioned folder is:
>>>>
>>>> C:\ARCHIV~1\R\R-29~1.2\share\perl\R>ls
>>>> Dcf.pm Logfile.pm Rd.pm Rdconv.pm Rdlist.pm Rdtools.pm Utils.pm
>>>> Vars.pm
>>>>
>>>> Is there a problem with the way windows abbreviates folder names for
>>>> long
>>>> names of names withs spaces? Or the problem is elsewhere?
>>>>
>>>> Please, could you help?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and best regards,
>>>> Javier
>>>> ---
>>>>
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