On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I set PATH to start with a dot (looking at the INSTALL file section > on "Check your path"), "make" fails again with the > ".install_package_description" error. > > So it looks like either (i) the documentation should be changed to tell > the user to reset the path manually (and NB the dot isn't useful for > Windows 2000),
It was when I ran Windows 2000. What's wrong for you? > or preferably (ii) "make" needs to temporarily change the > search path, or to look more explicitly for the new R.exe file. Or I've > gotten my wires crossed... The latter. Try commenting out # path (possibly full path) to same version of R on the host system # R_EXE=R ^^ in MkRules. It's uncommented there from experiments with cross-compiling. Works for me. BTW, getting R-devel to cross-compile has been a nightmare, but has been achieved. -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
