[R] can't get rcmd to work on windows2k....

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Jeff D. Hamann wrote:

> I'm trying to make sure my R package will install properly (build help
> files, etc) and when I try to run the rcmd check (or any rcmd option) I get
> the following error. Does dcf.pm stand for perl module? If not, why do I get
> this message?

R/dcf.pm is indeed a Perl module.

You have ignored the instructions (readme.packages, INSTALL) which say:

    The Windows port of perl5, available via
    http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/.

Cygwin is a completely different port of Perl, and as you can see, it is
not interpreting Windows paths correctly.

Note that you seem also to have ignored

   BEWARE: Don't expect this to work if the path to R_HOME contains spaces.

although on some older versions of Windows you may be able to get away
with that.

We could explicitly say that the Cygwin port of Perl does not work, but
there would be no point in putting that in instructions that people don't
bother to read, would there?


> C:\systemfit\r_code>rcmd check --help
> Can't locate R/Dcf.pm in @INC (@INC contains: c
> \PROGRA~1\r\rw1041\share\perl; /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi /u
> sr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at
> c:\PROGRA~1\r\rw1041/bin/check line 32.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at c:\PROGRA~1\r\rw1041/bin/check line 32.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff.
>
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