[R] RV: Reporting a conflict between ADMB and Rtools on Windows systems

[Jan van der Laan]

I assume you use a command window to build your packages. One possible 
solution might be to leave out the path variables set by Rtools from 
your global path and to create a separate shortcut to cmd for building 
r-packages where you set your path as needed by R CMD build/check

Something like

cmd /K "PATH 
c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW64\bin;C:\Program Files 
(x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin"

(I haven't tried this so it might need some tinkering to get it to 
actually work)

HTH

Jan



On 17-11-2011 9:54, Rubén Roa wrote:
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> De: Rubén Roa
> Enviado el: jueves, 17 de noviembre de 2011 9:53
> Para: 'Users at admb-project.org'
> Asunto: Reporting a conflict between ADMB and Rtools on Windows systems
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> Hi,
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> I have to work under Windows, it's a company policy.
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> I've just found that there is a conflict between tools used to build R packages (Rtools) and ADMB due to the need to put Rtools compiler's location in the PATH environmental variable to make Rtools work.
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> On a Windows 7 64bit  with Rtools installed I installed ADMB-IDE latest version and although I could translate ADMB code to cpp code I could not build the cpp code into an executable via ADMB-IDE's compiler.
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> On another Windows machine, a Windows Vista 32bits with Rtools installed I also installed the latest ADMB-IDE and this time it was not possible to create the .obj file on the way to build the executable when building with ADMB-IDE. On this machine I also have a previous ADMB version (6.0.1) that I used to run from the DOS shell. This ADMB also failed to build the .obj file.
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> Now, going to PATH, the location info to make Rtools is:
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> c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW64\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin;
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> If from this list I remove the reference to the compiler
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> c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin
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> then ADMB works again.
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> So beware of this conflict. Suggestion of a solution will be appreciated. Meanwhile, I run ADMB code in one computer and build R packages with Rtools in another computer.
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> Best
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> Ruben
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