From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Sun Apr  8 05:28:59 2007
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 04:28:59 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] R CMD install on R 2.5.0 alpha
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The file is src/gnuwin32/fixed/bin/INSTALL.

You do not want --vanilla: the point is to run R under normal conditions 
to pick up the value it uses.   There is a workaround on the Unix side, nd 
I will add a similar one to the Windows code.

There will be the usual delays in this getting into an alpha Windows 
binary, so please try

https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/gnuwin32/fixed/bin/INSTALL

(save it and drop it into the R_HOME/bin directory).

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

> I located the problem to INSTALL.  If no the library path is not
> passed explicitly, that is no -l option is use, the following code in
> called:
>
> 132:    my @out = R_runR("cat(.libPaths()[1])", "--slave");
> 133:    $library = @out[0];
> 134:    $library = Win32::GetShortPathName($library) if $library =~ / /;
> 135:    print "installing to '$library'\n";
>
> In my .Rprofile I write a message "$HOME2/.Rprofile ...done" to
> stdout.  This is what is picked up in @out[0] above, and then I guess
> the code on line 134 turns this into an empty string (somehow).  By
> adding option --vanilla to the R call, this problem goes away.
>
> Here is a patch to $R_HOME/bin/INSTALL.
>
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.5.0alpha\bin>diff INSTALL INSTALL.new
> 132c132
> <     my @out = R_runR("cat(.libPaths()[1])", "--slave");
> ---
>>     my @out = R_runR("cat(.libPaths()[1])", "--vanilla --slave");
>
>
> I'm not sure if that INSTALL is in the source.  The only thing I can
> find in the SVN is INSTALL.in
> (https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/scripts/INSTALL.in), but that
> contains no such line of code?!?
>
> /Henrik
>
>
> On 4/7/07, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > On 4/7/07, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> >> Nothing has changed here for three months, AFAICS.  However, I noticed 
>> you
>> >> have installed R into a directory with a space in the path, despite the
>> >> advice not to.  OTOH, I have just tested installing where you did, and
>> >> was able to install R.oo:
>> >>
>> >> [c:/Program Files/R/R-2.5.0alpha/bin]% ./Rcmd INSTALL
>> >> d:/R/packages/contrib/R.oo_1.2.3.tar.gz
>> >> installing to 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-25~1.0AL/library'
>> >> ...
>> >
>> > Thank you for this confirmation.  It is odd though, because so have
>> > also I done successfully for years.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> On Windows, INSTALL is a Perl script.  Please debug it to see what is
>> >> going wrong on your setup (it is working for many others).
>> >
>> > I will debug INSTALL to see what might go wrong.  I'll see if I can
>> > locate an earlier version of R 2.5.0 alpha to see if the error really
>> > is there or not.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> You can of course specify -l to workaround this.
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > I've just downloaded the latest R v2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043) for
>> >>
>> >> That is not the latest binary build I am offered, let alone the latest
>> >> sources.
>> >
>> > Got it from the UC Davis CRAN mirror about an one hour before my message.
>> 
>> There is not much point in getting alpha/betas from mirrors: they can
>> introduce another 24-hour delay.
>> 
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Henrik
>> >
>> >>
>> >> > WinXP.  When I try to
>> >> > install a package R tries to install it to a no-name (empty name)
>> >> > directory (causing error downstream):
>> >> >
>> >> > RCMD INSTALL R.oo
>> >> > installing to ''
>> >> >
>> >> > FYI: Package install perfectly on R v2.4.1 patched, and did so also on
>> >> > earlier R v2.5.0 devel/alpha(?) versions.
>> >> >
>> >> > Current directory is:
>> >> > C:\tmp
>> >> >
>> >> > with subdirectory R.oo/ containing inst/ man/ R/ DESCRIPTION as usual.
>> >> >
>> >> > I noticed the following in CHANGES and NEWS related to R CMD INSTALL:
>> >> >
>> >> > o     R CMD INSTALL now installs by default into the first library on
>> >> >       the library path if R was run in the current environment.
>> >> >       Similarly, R CMD REMOVE by default removes from that library.
>> >> >       R CMD INSTALL does a better job of removing its temporary
>> >> >       directory.
>> >> >
>> >> > o     R CMD INSTALL and R CMD REMOVE now use as the default library
>> >> >       (if -l is not specified) the first library that would be used
>> >> >       if R were run in the current environment (and they run R to
>> >> >       find it).
>> >> >
>> >> >    o  R CMD INSTALL now prepends the installation directory (if
>> >> >       specified) to the library search path.
>> >> >
>> >> > But my I do have:
>> >> >
>> >> >> .libPaths()
>> >> > [1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.5.0alpha/library"
>> >> >
>> >> > My setup:
>> >> > echo %RHOME%:
>> >> > C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-2.5.0alpha
>> >> >> .libPaths()
>> >> > [1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.5.0alpha/library"
>> >> >> sessionInfo()
>> >> > R version 2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043)
>> >> > i386-pc-mingw32
>> >> > locale:
>> >> > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> >> States.1252;LC_MON
>> >> > ETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United
>> >> States.1252
>> >> > attached base packages:
>> >> > [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets" 
>> "methods"
>> >> > [7] "base"
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Any help appreciated
>> >> >
>> >> > Henrik
>> >> >
>> >> > ______________________________________________
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>> >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> >> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> >> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> >> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>> >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>> >>
>> >
>> 
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>> 
>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
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[Rd] R CMD install on R 2.5.0 alpha
Prof Brian Ripley