cstrato wrote:
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, cstrato wrote:
Dear Duncan
Thank you for this explicit explanation, you are right:
When setting the system variable "Path" (as administrator) in
addition to setting the user variable "PATH" (as user), now
everything works fine.
Interestingly, setting the system variable "Path" on my laptop with
Rtools27 seems not to be necessary.
May I suggest that this could be clarified in "R Installation and
Administration" since there only the user variable "PATH" is
mentioned (as far as I see).
In a shell there is only one PATH, so the manual is correct.
I did not say that the manual is not correct, I only suggested to
clarify the issue, since when running R CMD INSTALL from the Command
Console I need to set also the system variable "Path".
I'd be reluctant to do this, for the same reason Brian was: the
documentation is correct. You need to set the PATH environment variable
correctly, and that's what we say. The fact that doing this is
complicated and confusing on Windows is a problem with the Windows
design and documentation, not the R documentation, and Microsoft
certainly has more resources than we do to address it. What was their
response when you asked them to improve their documentation?
Duncan Murdoch
Thank you all one more time.
Best regards
Christian
Duncan Murdoch wrote:
cstrato wrote:
Dear all
Thank you all for you fast reply.
As I said, everything on my laptop and Mac is identical, here are
my user defined environment variables:
HOME: c:\home\Rabbitus
INCLUDE: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio
9.0\VC\include;C:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include
LIB: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio
9.0\VC\lib;C:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib;C:\root\lib
PATH:
C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Programme\HTML
Help Workshop;C:\Programme\R\R-2.8.0\bin;C:\root\bin;
MSVSPATH: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin
ROOTSYS: c:\root
R_LIBS: cd "C:\home\Rabbitus\CRAN"
TMPDIR: c:\home\Rabbitus\temp
I think Brian was right, your PATH is not what is shown above.
(That doesn't include the Windows directories, for instance.)
Were you running Rcmd INSTALL from a shell? Which shell? What does
the shell report as your PATH just before running it?
On Windows, the PATH is handled in a fairly complicated way. I
believe this description is correct, but it may not apply to all
Windows versions:
The thing you set from within the Control Panel only applies to the
currently running copy of Explorer. Other applications that are
currently running (e.g. an existing CMD shell) do not have their
path updated.
There are both system and user level PATH settings. Explorer
combines them by putting the system settings *first*.
Within a CMD shell, you can override the PATH completely, just by
setting it to a new set of directories.
So it looks as though your problem is that your are showing us the
user settings for the PATH, but not the system settings, and the
system settings are messing you up.
Duncan Murdoch
I have just checked again, all variables are identical on both
systems.
Could there be another reason?
What about the registry setting mentioned by Gabor Grothendieck?
Best regaards
Christian
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
This is a PATH error: you must have Rtools/bin before Windows
system directories in your path. As the R-admin manual tells you
explicitly ....
fortune("WTFM") applies.
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, cstrato wrote:
Dear all
When trying to install my package on Windows XP on my Mac, I get
the following error:
---------- Making package xps ------------
...
...
xpsDict.cxx
"C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin/link" /dll
/def:xps.def /out:xps.dll fp10.obj -opt:noref -nologo
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Hist -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Graf1
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__G3D -include:_G__cpp_setupG__GPad
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Tree -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Rint
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__PostScript
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Matrix -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Physics
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Ged "C:\root/lib/libCore.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libCint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libHist.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGraf3d.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTree.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libRint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPostscript.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libMatrix.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPhysics.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libNet.lib" "C:\root/lib/libRIO.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libMathCore.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGui.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libGed.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTreePlayer.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libTreeViewer.lib" *.obj
Creating library xps.lib and object xps.exp
... done
installing DLL
installing R files
installing inst files
FIND: Parameterformat falsch
make[2]: *** [C:/home/Rabbitus/CRAN/xps.Rcheck/xps/inst] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [pkg-xps] Error 2
*** Installation of xps failed ***
However, when I install my package on my Windows XP laptop,
everything is ok:
---------- Making package xps ------------
...
...
xpsDict.cxx
"C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin/link" /dll
/def:xps.def /out:xps.dll fp10.obj -opt:noref -nologo
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Hist -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Graf1
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__G3D -include:_G__cpp_setupG__GPad
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Tree -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Rint
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__PostScript
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Matrix -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Physics
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Ged "C:\root/lib/libCore.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libCint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libHist.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGraf3d.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTree.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libRint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPostscript.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libMatrix.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPhysics.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libNet.lib" "C:\root/lib/libRIO.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libMathCore.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGui.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libGed.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTreePlayer.lib"
"C:\root/lib/libTreeViewer.lib" *.obj
Creating library xps.lib and object xps.exp
... done
installing DLL
installing R files
installing inst files
preparing package xps for lazy loading
installing man source files
installing indices
Warning messages:
1: In file.create(f.tg) :
kann Datei 'c:/Programme/R/R-2.8.0/doc/html/packages.html' nicht
erzeugen. Grund 'Permission denied'
2: In tools:::win.packages.html(.Library) :
kann HTML Paketindex nicht aktualisieren
installing help
Building/Updating help pages for package 'xps'
...
To my knowledge I have only made one difference when installing
everything necessary to build my package:
On my laptop I have installed Rtools27.exe, while on WinXP on my
Mac I have installed Rtools28.exe.
Do you know what the reason for the error might be?
Thank you in advance.
Best regards
Christian
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