From jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu  Thu Apr  1 20:27:04 2004
From: jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu (Jeff Gentry)
Date: Thu Apr  1 20:26:36 2004
Subject: [Rd] Installing Win32 packages w/ 'inst' dirs
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.20.0404011322380.15655-100000@santiam.dfci.harvard.edu>

Hello ...

I noticed this last night when I updated R-devel, and then figured that I
had some 'make clean' or related issues and would look at it today.  This
morning I did a rsync of r-devel into a fresh directory and am now having
the same issue.

Basically, whenever R is trying to install a package with an 'inst'
directory in it (even in the base packages, thus this happens during the
build of R), I get the output (this example from the 'utils' package):

  installing inst files
FIND: Parameter format not correct
make[2]: *** [c:/r/R-1.9.0/library/utils/inst] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [pkg-utils] Error 2
*** Installation of utils failed ***


Is anyone else seeing this?  It might be something from my own system, I
realize - although AFAIK nothing has changed on this machine and it wasn't
encountering this issue before (although admittedly the last time I built
R was about 2 weeks ago).

Any ideas?

Thanks
-J


[Rd] Installing Win32 packages w/ 'inst' dirs
Jeff Gentry