[R] building packages on windows

[stockton@neptuneandco.com]

You\'ll probably need sh.exe in c:\\bin. I\'ve also found that if you have ever 
installed cygwin you need to uninstall it and remove references to cygwin from 
your registry (not that I\'m recommending editing your registry).

Tom Stockton
stockton at neptuneandco.com

Quoting Niels Waller <niels.waller at vanderbilt.edu>:

> 
> 
> Has anyone had success building a package on a windows machine?
> 
> I am trying the following command with no luck (perhaps my flags are
> incorrect?).  At this point I am stuck. Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> Niels Waller
> (BTW - I have no idea why it cannot find sh.exe since I have it is a
> directory that is specified in a path statement)
> 
> 
> H:\\R\\bin>rcmd build --binary --use-zip h:\\taxon2
> * checking for file \'h:\\taxon2/DESCRIPTION\' ... OK
> 
> make: Entering directory `/cygdrive/h/R/src/gnuwin32\'
> make DLLNM= \\
>   -C h://taxon2 PKG=taxon2 RHOME=h:/R RLIB=c:/TEMP/Rbuild.373 \\
>   -f h:/R/src/gnuwin32/MakePkg
> make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/h/taxon2\'
> make[1]: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
> make[1]: *** [c:/TEMP/Rbuild.373/taxon2/zzzz] Error 127
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/h/taxon2\'
> make: *** [pkg-taxon2] Error 2
> make: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/h/R/src/gnuwin32\'
> *** Installation of taxon2 failed ***
> 
> installing R.css in c:/TEMP/Rbuild.373
> 
> * building \'taxon2_1..3.zip\'
>         zip warning: name not matched: taxon2
> 
> zip error: Nothing to do! (try: zip -r9X H:/R/bin/taxon2_1..3.zip . -i
> taxon2)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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