From pooja.varshneya at gmail.com  Sun Sep 12 18:36:27 2010
From: pooja.varshneya at gmail.com (pooja varshneya)
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:36:27 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Windows build
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Thanks Duncan !!
Running 'make rsync-recommended' solved the problem.

Thanks,
Pooja

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/09/2010 5:05 PM, pooja varshneya wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I am trying to build R-2.11.1 from source code on Windows 2003. I am
>> able to build it, but when i run 'make check', it fails as follows:
>> Does the tests produce a log somewhere that i can use for
>> troubleshooting the problem ?
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> C:\R\R-2.11.1\src\gnuwin32>make check
>>
>> Collecting examples for package 'base'
>> ?Extracting from parsed Rd's ........................................
>> Running examples in package 'base'
>>
>> Collecting examples for package 'tools'
>> ?Extracting from parsed Rd's ....
>> Running examples in package 'tools'
>>
>> Collecting examples for package 'utils'
>> ?Extracting from parsed Rd's .............
>> Running examples in package 'utils'
>> Error: testing 'utils' failed
>> Execution halted
>> make[3]: *** [test-Examples-Base] Error 1
>> make[2]: *** [test-Examples] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1
>> make: *** [check] Error 2
>
> Yes, if you look in the R_HOME/tests directory, you'll see a subdirectory
> named Examples; that's where the logs of all the tests of examples are
> saved. ?But I can guess at the problem: ?you don't have the recommended
> packages installed. ?They're needed to run the tests. ?In Windows you get
> them by
>
> make rsync-recommended
> make recommended
>
> Getting them in other OS's is slightly different, but I forget the details.
> ?See the R Installation and Administration manual.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>



[Rd] Windows build
pooja varshneya