R CMD build (lower case) indeed works. I was confused with older versions of Rtools where it didn't matter if you used lower or upper case (as well as that I thought under DOS upper and lower cases don't make a difference). I was wrong however. Thanks for the help
________________________________________ Van: Uwe Ligges [lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de] Verzonden: donderdag 12 augustus 2010 22:10 Aan: Hintzen, Niels CC: r-help@r-project.org Onderwerp: Re: [R] build.pl in building library with Rtools211 What did you try? R CMD build (build all lower case) does work for me Uwe Ligges On 09.08.2010 22:30, Hintzen, Niels wrote: > Dear all, > > As I couldn't find any thread on the internet I hope the help-list might help > me out. > > I've tried to update Rtools from R210 used in combination with R2.9.1 to R211 > in combination with R2.11.1. However, I do not succeed. > > I have R2.11.1 running, as well as Inno Setup 5, HTML help and MikTex. A > version of Perl is installed too. Environment variable paths are set to link > to these directories too. > > However, when I try to build a library using: R CMD BUILD mypackage it > immediately crashes as apparently it cannot find the file 'build' in > R-2.11.1/bin. Indeed, this file is not present there (only build.pl) while > this file is present in the R-2.9.1/bin directory. > > What obvious thing am I doing wrong. > > Your help is much appreciated. > > With regards, > > Niels Hintzen > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.