If of any value/FYI, this seems to be related to my R-devel post 'R devel [and R 2.14.1 patched]: R CMD build now sources ~/.Rprofile':
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-February/063365.html /Henrik On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Bert Gunter <gunter.ber...@gene.com> wrote: > Folks: > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) > Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 > [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C > > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] datasets splines grid tcltk stats graphics grDevices > [8] utils methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] svSocket_0.9-51 lattice_0.19-26 MASS_7.3-17 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] cluster_1.14.2 Hmisc_3.9-3 R2HTML_2.2 svMisc_0.9-65 > TinnR_1.0-5 > [6] tools_2.15.0 > > > According to section 1.3 of the WRITING R EXTENSIONS manual, both R CMD > build and R CMD check run R with the '--vanilla' option so no user startup > files are read. > > However, > > 1. If I have an Rprofile.site in my etc startup directory, if I am in the > ...\top directory and try to check or build the top\mypackage source > package, I can only do so by giving (in the Windows shell, of course) the > full path name to R CMD build/check, e.g. > R CMD build pathtoTop\top\mypackage . > > R CMD build mypackage > > yields the error: ERROR cannot change to directory 'test' > > > 2. However, if I remove (e.g. change the name) of Rprofile.site, then > > R CMD build/check mypackage > > works fine. Note that my Rprofile.site file DOES contain a setwd() > statement to some other directory; if I comment out this statement, then I > also do not need to use the full path name even with the Rprofile.site file > there. > > So my question is: Is the documentation wrong? -- Is there an environmental > variable or option I need to set/change? -- Is this a Windows "feature" > subtlety? > > Many thanks. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
