From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Tue Jun 13 04:19:42 2006
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:19:42 -0400
Subject: [Rd] normalizePath() warning
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On 6/12/2006 4:53 PM, Roger D. Peng wrote:
> I've been getting the following warning after running 'install.packages()' recently:
> 
> Warning message:
> insufficient OS support on this platform in: normalizePath(path)
> 
> Does anyone know what this means?  And does anyone know how I can get rid of the 
> warning?  I've just installed R on a fresh FC5 system so I feel I might have 
> forgotten to install a package/library or something.

This is printed when your R source was compiled without these defines:

#if defined(HAVE_GETCWD) && defined(HAVE_REALPATH)

I guess you can look in your config log to see why you don't have those.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] normalizePath() warning
Duncan Murdoch