The results of the session below are the same in 2.8.1 as in 2.9.1
(including in particular the response to the call to file.access).
Kevin
Tony Plate wrote:
Did you try starting up R-2.8.1 and checking the result of
file.access(lib, 2) on that very same directory where R-2.9.1 gives an
incorrect indication? If that gives the correct answer, then, look
for changes in the file.access code.
-- Tony Plate
Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
Hi,
The problem almost certainly has something to do with Samba. We also
have a NetApp file system, and copying the package source to that
drive and running Rcmd check from Windows works just fine.
When running the commands from an interactive R session, file_test
returns TRUE and file.access to test write permission indicates a
failure, even though that information is incorrect.Here is a session
transcript:
-----------------------------------------
> getwd()
[1] "n:/krc/Umpire/R-Package"
> lib <- "Umpire.Rcheck"
> file_test("-d", lib)
[1] TRUE
> file.access(lib, 2)
Umpire.Rcheck
-1
> dir.create(paste(lib, "testdir", sep='/'))
> dir(lib)
[1] "00check.log" "00install.out" "testdir" > sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
i386-pc-mingw32
locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
----------------------------------------
Again, this all worked (and still works) correctly in 2.8.1.
Kevin
Tony Plate wrote:
This error message looks like it comes from
src/library/tools/R/install.R, which contains the following test:
if (!.file_test("-d", lib) || file.access(lib, 2L))
stop("ERROR: no permission to install to directory ",
sQuote(lib), call. = FALSE)
The function .file_test() is defined earlier in the same file (it
looks at file.info(lib)$isdir) and appears to be intended to be the
same as utils:::file_test().
You could start trying to figure out what the problem is by trying
these calls on the directory in question from an interactive R session.
(They seem to work as intended on my Windows system with a NetApp
file system mounted on a letter drive.)
-- Tony Plate
Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
Hi,
I have just updated R from version 2.8.1 to version 2.9.1. I am
running Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3.
With the update, I decided to update a set of packages that I
maintain by compiling them for the new version. Everything worked
fine except for one package. This package is unique (among the six
I was working on) in that is stored on a UNIX-based file server
that is exported to the Windows network via Samba. The root of
that network path is mapped to drive "N:" on the local machine.
'Rcmd check' fails for this package under 2.9.1. The error message
in '00install.out' is:
"Error: ERROR: no permission to install to directory
'N:/krc/Umpire/R-Package/Umpire.Rcheck'"
'Rcmd check' works for this package under 2.8.1.
'Rcmd check' works for this package if the directory is copied onto
a local hard drive instead of the network drive.
'Rcmd build' and 'Rcmd build --binary' work under both versions.
It would be nice if someone could figure out what has changed and
fix it....
Best,
Kevin Coombes
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