From cstrato at aon.at  Fri Dec  5 22:06:09 2008
From: cstrato at aon.at (cstrato)
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:06:09 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Error in R CMD INSTALL on Windows XP using Rtools28
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Dear Duncan

Thank you for this explicit explanation, you are right:

When setting the system variable "Path" (as administrator) in addition 
to setting the user variable "PATH" (as user), now everything works fine.

Interestingly, setting the system variable "Path" on my laptop with 
Rtools27 seems not to be necessary.

May I suggest that  this could be clarified in "R Installation and 
Administration" since there only the user variable "PATH" is mentioned 
(as far as I see).

Thank you all one more time.
Best regards
Christian


Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> cstrato wrote:
>> Dear all
>>
>> Thank you all for you fast reply.
>>
>> As I said, everything on my laptop and Mac is identical, here are my 
>> user defined environment variables:
>>
>> HOME: c:\home\Rabbitus
>> INCLUDE: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 
>> 9.0\VC\include;C:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include
>> LIB: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio
>> 9.0\VC\lib;C:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib;C:\root\lib
>> PATH: 
>> C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Programme\HTML 
>> Help Workshop;C:\Programme\R\R-2.8.0\bin;C:\root\bin;
>> MSVSPATH: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin
>> ROOTSYS: c:\root
>> R_LIBS: cd "C:\home\Rabbitus\CRAN"
>> TMPDIR: c:\home\Rabbitus\temp
>>   
> I think Brian was right, your PATH is not what is shown above.  (That 
> doesn't include the Windows directories, for instance.)
>
> Were you running Rcmd INSTALL from a shell?  Which shell?  What does 
> the shell report as your PATH just before running it?
> On Windows, the PATH is handled in a fairly complicated way.  I 
> believe this description is correct, but it may not apply to all 
> Windows versions:
>
> The thing you set from within the Control Panel only applies to the 
> currently running copy of Explorer.  Other applications that are 
> currently running (e.g. an existing CMD shell) do not have their path 
> updated.
>
> There are both system and user level PATH settings.  Explorer combines 
> them by putting the system settings *first*.
> Within a CMD shell, you can override the PATH completely, just by 
> setting it to a new set of directories.
>
> So it looks as though your problem is that your are showing us the 
> user settings for the PATH, but not the system settings, and the 
> system settings are messing you up.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>> I have just checked again, all variables are identical on both systems.
>>
>> Could there be another reason?
>> What about the registry setting mentioned by Gabor Grothendieck?
>>
>> Best regaards
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>  
>>> This is a PATH error: you must have Rtools/bin before Windows system 
>>> directories in your path.  As the R-admin manual tells you 
>>> explicitly ....
>>>
>>> fortune("WTFM") applies.
>>>
>>> On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, cstrato wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> Dear all
>>>>
>>>> When trying to install my package on Windows XP on my Mac, I get 
>>>> the following error:
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Making package xps ------------
>>>> ...
>>>> ...
>>>> xpsDict.cxx
>>>> "C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin/link" /dll 
>>>> /def:xps.def /out:xps.dll fp10.obj  -opt:noref  -nologo 
>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Hist -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Graf1 
>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__G3D -include:_G__cpp_setupG__GPad 
>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Tree -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Rint 
>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__PostScript -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Matrix 
>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Physics -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Ged  
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libCore.lib" "C:\root/lib/libCint.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libHist.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGraf3d.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libTree.lib" "C:\root/lib/libRint.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libPostscript.lib" "C:\root/lib/libMatrix.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libPhysics.lib" "C:\root/lib/libNet.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libRIO.lib" "C:\root/lib/libMathCore.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGui.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGed.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libTreePlayer.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTreeViewer.lib" *.obj
>>>>  Creating library xps.lib and object xps.exp
>>>> ... done
>>>> installing DLL
>>>> installing R files
>>>> installing inst files
>>>> FIND: Parameterformat falsch
>>>> make[2]: *** [C:/home/Rabbitus/CRAN/xps.Rcheck/xps/inst] Error 2
>>>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>>>> make: *** [pkg-xps] Error 2
>>>> *** Installation of xps failed ***
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However, when I install my package on my Windows XP laptop, 
>>>> everything is ok:
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Making package xps ------------
>>>> ...
>>>> ...
>>>> xpsDict.cxx
>>>> "C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin/link" /dll 
>>>> /def:xps.def /out:xps.dll fp10.obj  -opt:noref  -nologo 
>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Hist -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Graf1 
>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__G3D -include:_G__cpp_setupG__GPad 
>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Tree -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Rint 
>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__PostScript -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Matrix 
>>>> -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Physics -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Ged  
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libCore.lib" "C:\root/lib/libCint.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libHist.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGraf3d.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libTree.lib" "C:\root/lib/libRint.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libPostscript.lib" "C:\root/lib/libMatrix.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libPhysics.lib" "C:\root/lib/libNet.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libRIO.lib" "C:\root/lib/libMathCore.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGui.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGed.lib" 
>>>> "C:\root/lib/libTreePlayer.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTreeViewer.lib" *.obj
>>>>  Creating library xps.lib and object xps.exp
>>>> ... done
>>>> installing DLL
>>>> installing R files
>>>> installing inst files
>>>> preparing package xps for lazy loading
>>>> installing man source files
>>>> installing indices
>>>> Warning messages:
>>>> 1: In file.create(f.tg) :
>>>> kann Datei 'c:/Programme/R/R-2.8.0/doc/html/packages.html' nicht 
>>>> erzeugen. Grund 'Permission denied'
>>>> 2: In tools:::win.packages.html(.Library) :
>>>> kann HTML Paketindex nicht aktualisieren
>>>> installing help
>>>>      
>>>>>>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'xps'
>>>>>>>             
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> To my knowledge I have only made one difference when installing 
>>>> everything necessary to build my package:
>>>> On my laptop I have installed Rtools27.exe, while on WinXP on my 
>>>> Mac I have installed Rtools28.exe.
>>>>
>>>> Do you know what the reason for the error might be?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Christian
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