[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > > This may not be a bug--but I'm not sure.
In that case you should not submit a bug report. Someone will have to clean up after you. > I have R 1.91 installed on a > machine that's running Windows XP. And the current year is approx. 2045... (1.9.1 is the current version) > In Cygwin, when I attempt to use the > "build" command it tells me that TMPDIR is set to an invalid directory. > See the results below: It is saying that TMPDIR is not set to a valid directory, which is not quite the same thing. It would appear that it is not set at all. > stat20:/cygdrive/d/dirk/bands/implementation -> which r > /cygdrive/d/Programs/R/rw1091/bin/r > > stat20:/cygdrive/d/dirk/bands/implementation -> r CMD build --help > Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory > > stat20:/cygdrive/d/dirk/bands/implementation -> r CMD build validate > Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory > > stat20:/cygdrive/d/dirk/bands/implementation -> echo $TMPDIR > TMPDIR: Undefined variable. > > stat20:/cygdrive/d/dirk/bands/implementation -> echo $TMP > /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/sego/LOCALS~1/Temp > > stat20:/cygdrive/d/dirk/bands/implementation -> echo $TEMP > /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/sego/LOCALS~1/Temp > > What is TMPDIR? How can I set it? A temporary directory. "export TMPDIR=$TMP" would be a guess if you're using bash. Otherwise, however you normally set environment variables. Did you read the INSTALL and README.packages files? In particular there seems to be a couple of gotchas involved when running under Cygwin. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel