Hi. On 4/7/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nothing has changed here for three months, AFAICS. However, I noticed you > have installed R into a directory with a space in the path, despite the > advice not to. OTOH, I have just tested installing where you did, and > was able to install R.oo: > > [c:/Program Files/R/R-2.5.0alpha/bin]% ./Rcmd INSTALL > d:/R/packages/contrib/R.oo_1.2.3.tar.gz > installing to 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-25~1.0AL/library' > ...
Thank you for this confirmation. It is odd though, because so have also I done successfully for years. > > On Windows, INSTALL is a Perl script. Please debug it to see what is > going wrong on your setup (it is working for many others). I will debug INSTALL to see what might go wrong. I'll see if I can locate an earlier version of R 2.5.0 alpha to see if the error really is there or not. > > You can of course specify -l to workaround this. > > On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've just downloaded the latest R v2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043) for > > That is not the latest binary build I am offered, let alone the latest > sources. Got it from the UC Davis CRAN mirror about an one hour before my message. Thanks Henrik > > > WinXP. When I try to > > install a package R tries to install it to a no-name (empty name) > > directory (causing error downstream): > > > > RCMD INSTALL R.oo > > installing to '' > > > > FYI: Package install perfectly on R v2.4.1 patched, and did so also on > > earlier R v2.5.0 devel/alpha(?) versions. > > > > Current directory is: > > C:\tmp > > > > with subdirectory R.oo/ containing inst/ man/ R/ DESCRIPTION as usual. > > > > I noticed the following in CHANGES and NEWS related to R CMD INSTALL: > > > > o R CMD INSTALL now installs by default into the first library on > > the library path if R was run in the current environment. > > Similarly, R CMD REMOVE by default removes from that library. > > R CMD INSTALL does a better job of removing its temporary > > directory. > > > > o R CMD INSTALL and R CMD REMOVE now use as the default library > > (if -l is not specified) the first library that would be used > > if R were run in the current environment (and they run R to > > find it). > > > > o R CMD INSTALL now prepends the installation directory (if > > specified) to the library search path. > > > > But my I do have: > > > >> .libPaths() > > [1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.5.0alpha/library" > > > > My setup: > > echo %RHOME%: > > C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-2.5.0alpha > >> .libPaths() > > [1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.5.0alpha/library" > >> sessionInfo() > > R version 2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043) > > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > > States.1252;LC_MON > > ETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United > > States.1252 > > attached base packages: > > [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "methods" > > [7] "base" > > > > > > Any help appreciated > > > > Henrik > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
