R help - Apr 2005 - Installing packages, again

Hi again,

I've just uninstalled R2.01 and installed the new R2.10 on my WindowsXP 
machine. I then attempted to install the vegan package from source 
files, as I learned to do last week, with the help of some of you. I 
have updated my path variable to the new R directory (R/rw2010/bin 
instead of R/rw2001pat/bin), and I've still got the HTMLHelpWorkshop 
files installed, as well as Perl and the MinGW compiler. I didn't change 
anything in those files, and everything is stored in directories without 
spaces in the name. I had trouble with the install, so I deleted the 
rtools folder and reinstalled it.

Still, the package won't install. Following R CMD INSTALL vegan I get 
the error: "no rule to make target 'C:/R/rw2001pat/include/R.h',
needed
by 'goffactor.o'. Stop." So it looks like I've still got
something
pointing to the old rw2001pat directory, instead of the new rw2010 
directory. Can anyone tell me what I've overlooked? I have also gone 
into Mkrules and updated all the paths that I could.

Thanks again,

Tyler

-- 
Tyler Smith

PhD Candidate
Department of Plant Science
McGill University

tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Tyler Smith wrote:
> I've just uninstalled R2.01 and installed the new R2.10 on my WindowsXP
> machine. I then attempted to install the vegan package from source
> files, as I learned to do last week, with the help of some of you. I
> have updated my path variable to the new R directory (R/rw2010/bin
> instead of R/rw2001pat/bin), and I've still got the HTMLHelpWorkshop
> files installed, as well as Perl and the MinGW compiler. I didn't
change
> anything in those files, and everything is stored in directories without
> spaces in the name. I had trouble with the install, so I deleted the
> rtools folder and reinstalled it.
>
> Still, the package won't install. Following R CMD INSTALL vegan I get
> the error: "no rule to make target
'C:/R/rw2001pat/include/R.h', needed
> by 'goffactor.o'. Stop." So it looks like I've still got
something
> pointing to the old rw2001pat directory, instead of the new rw2010
> directory. Can anyone tell me what I've overlooked? I have also gone
> into Mkrules and updated all the paths that I could.
Create a file in the 'vegan' package directory named
'.Rbuildignore' and add the text 'Makedeps' on a line by
itself. See if that fixes your problem. You're picking up
the dependencies from previous version's last compilation.
You could also delete this file since it'll be recreated
anyway. IMO, the file 'Makedeps' should be added to the list
of files R ignores by default.

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Thanks! I tried adding the .Rbuildignore file, but that didn't work out. 
So I found the Makedeps file in the vegan/src folder and deleted it. 
That solved the problem.

Tyler

-- 
Tyler Smith

PhD Candidate
Department of Plant Science

tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca