[R] Unable to Install a package from source in Windows

2014-01-09 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Hi, I am using following R version: version _ platform i386-w64-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 3 minor 0.1 year 2013 month 05 day16 svn rev62743 language

Re: [R] Unable to Install a package from source in Windows

2014-01-09 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
The answer most likely is in the message: '\\homer.win.ad.jhu.edu\users$\rvaradh1\Documents' CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory. UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory. That path starting with a \\ is a *UNC path* (a Windows thing), which I

Re: [R] Unable to Install a package from source in Windows

2014-01-09 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Henrik Bengtsson h...@biostat.ucsf.edu wrote: The answer most likely is in the message: '\\homer.win.ad.jhu.edu\users$\rvaradh1\Documents' CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory. UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows