[R] contrib pkg install problem on Windows with R2.2.0
Ingmar Visser
I.Visser at uva.nl
Thu Dec 1 17:04:42 CET 2005
Dear Uwe,
>> I made the package depmix for fitting hidden markov models.
>> After updating R to version 2.2.0 on my PC I got the following error when
>> installing the package from a local directory. One of the C files includes
>> the R.h file which apparently causes problems.
>>
>> I call
>>
>> R CMD INSTALL --docs="normal" depmix
>>
>> and I get the following error:
>>
>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'C:/rw2011/include/R.h', needed by
>> derdist.o. Stop.
>
>
> You probably did build from a poluted directory containing an old
> ".../src/Makedeps" file. Remove it and try again.
That was spot on, thanks!
Another thing that came up during compiling/installing the package is
latex: not found
warnings. They don't affect the correct installation it seems ...
Even so, I never saw the warning before. Does R CMD INSTALL now call latex
whereas it didn't do that earlier?
best, ingmar
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