I had a problem like this for a while with bigmemory et. al... the check
went through to the very end, including successfully building the man pages,
then a number of shells popped up and the process died as described here.
The build was successful. We never did figure out exactly why, but are
To be more precise, while the build process worked, the check did not. When
it got to the point * checking for portable compilation flags in Makevars
...
a number of shells popped up (to run c:\Rtools\sh.exe) and the process died.
This happens with Rcpp and cxxPack on an AMD machine running
