Uwe: Thanks to your gentle nudge I reread the manual and learned that your preferred version of tar is installed by Rtools. After a little glitch and a July 2 R-help post about a missing file in the tarball, I was able to build the patched version of 2.15.1. The work y'all do is beyond words. In case anyone is interested in the steps I took, here they are:
Building R-2.15.1 64-bit from Source on Windows “R_Admin” will refer to the R Installation and Administration manual. Getting the Tools Per Appendix D of R_Admin I downloaded and installed Rtools215.exe from the link at the beginning of that appendix, MiKTeX, and Inno. The installation of RTools automatically set the system version of the PATH variable so that the necessary folders for building R are given in the preferred order. On my machine the RTools were placed in the C:\RTools folder. Per section 3.1.1 of R_Admin, RTools also installed “extra files” in C:\R and C:\R64 –- more below. Getting the Source The 2.15.1 tarball on CRAN’s home has an issue with a missing file (per R-help post on 2012-07-02) so I got the most recent patched version per the instructions of section 1.2 of R_Admin by clicking on last night’s “R-patched…” link at the indicated ftp site. I made a directory in C:\Program Files called R-2.15.1 –- my Windows id has Administrator privileges –- and placed the tarball into that folder. Unpacking I used Rtools' tar to unpack the tarball by opening a command window with Administrator privileges (right click, Run as Administrator), navigating to C:\Program Files\R-2.15.1, and then running tar on the tarball with the “--no-same-owner” option per section 3.1.2 of R_Admin. tar automatically created an R-patched subdirectory within C:\Program Files\R-2.15.1 and placed all the files there. Thus, R_HOME in R_Admin was equivalent to C:\Program Files\R 2.15.1\R patched for this build. Getting the Tools (continued): “the extra files” Per the last two bullets of R_Admin section 3.1.2, I copied the \Tcl subdirectory from C:\R64 (because I’m building the 64-bit version) to C:\Program Files\R-2.15.1\R-patched and copied the three folders in C:\R64\src\gnuwin32\bitmap to the directory C:\Program Files\R-2.15.1\R-patched\src\gnuwin32\bitmap. MkRules.local Per R_Admin 3.1.3, I made a copy of MkRules.dist and made the following changes MkRules.dist MkRules.local MULTI = MULTI = 64 # JPEGDIR JPEGDIR # PNGDIR PNGDIR # TIFFDIR TIFFDIR Building the core files My C:\Temp directory can be written to by almost everyone, so, per section 3.1.3, in the still open command window I set the TMPDIR variable to that folder by SET TMPDIR=C:\Temp. Then “make all recommended” ran without error. C:\Program Files\R-2.15.1\R-patched\bin\x64\Rgui.exe worked. Thanks again! Dan On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > On 15.08.2012 17:53, Dan Murphy wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Simon Urbanek >> <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Dan, >>> >>> On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Dan Murphy <chiefmur...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello: >>>> >>>> I am building R 2.15.1 from source on a Windows 7 machine with the x64 >>>> toolset, MixTeX, and InnoSetup per >>>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/. I obtained the source for >>>> 2.15.1 via svn from https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-15-branch/. >>> >>> >>> Did you also rsync the recommended packages? They are not in the SVN. If >>> in doubt, use released source tar balls. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Simon >>> >> Thanks, Simon. I should have mentioned that as well. Yes, I did "make >> rsync-recommended" per Chapter 3 of the manual and that worked without >> error. >> >> I first inadvertently had tried to build the 2.16 version in /trunk >> and got that "undefined exports" error, then switched to the >> /R-2-15-branch when I realized /trunk held the development version. >> >> In between the two svn checkouts, I had tried the source tar ball at >> the link R-2.15.1.tar.gz. That terminated much sooner in the build, >> which I thought could have resulted from me using 7-Zip on the tar >> ball (lacking a windows version of your tar), so I went back to the >> subversion checkout method. > > > Please read the R Installation and Administration manual that explains how > to set up your environment under Windows to build R yourself and what tools > are needed. Note that a binary is available from CRAN. > > Uwe Ligges > > > >> >>> >>> >>>> This is my first try building R from source. The build seems to go far, >>>> then terminates with "undefined exports: .M.classEnv" from the Matrix >>>> package, I believe. Here are the last few lines of the build session >>>> >>>> Creating a generic function for 'qr.resid' from package 'base' in >>>> package >>>> 'Matrix' >>>> Creating a generic function for 'qr.fitted' from package 'base' in >>>> package >>>> 'Matrix' >>>> ** help >>>> *** installing help indices >>>> ** building package indices >>>> Loading required package: Matrix >>>> Error in namespaceExport(ns, exports) : undefined exports: .M.classEnv >>>> Error : require(Matrix) is not TRUE >>>> ERROR: installing package indices failed >>>> * removing 'C:/Users/Dan/Documents/R-2.15.1/library/Matrix' >>>> make[1]: *** [Matrix.ts] Error 1 >>>> make: *** [recommended] Error 2 >>>> >>>> Perhaps there are special settings I should be making in MkRules.local? >>>> My >>>> only modification was MULTI = 64. >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance for your help. >>>> >>>> Dan Murphy >>>> >>>> [[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 >> > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
