R devel - Jul 2009 - building source package in R run within Emacs under Windows.

Dear R-devel,

I installed R-2.9.1 on the 'y:' drive which happens to be mounted to an
IBRIX file system.
I also downloaded and installed the Rtools bundle recommended for 2.9x.

When I build a source package launching R via RGui.exe it seems to work fine:

## setting path according to "Appendix E The Windows
toolset"
>
Sys.setenv(PATH="c:/Rtools/bin;c:/Rtools/perl/bin;c:/Rtools/MinGW/bin;c:/cygwin/bin;c:/progra~1/htmhe~1;y:/R/R-2.9.1/bin;c:/windows;c:/windows/system32")
> install.packages("c:/R/vmisc", repos=NULL,
type="source", lib="y:/R/vogranovich/library")
*** 'hhc.exe' not found: not building CHM help

* Installing *source* package 'vmisc' ...
** libs
  making DLL ...
  ... done
** R
** data
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'vmisc'
     Formats: text html latex example
Note: removing empty section \usage in file 'vmisc.Rd'
  vmisc                             text    html    latex   example
** building package indices ...
** MD5 sums
* DONE (vmisc)

However when I run the same commands in R launched via Rterm under Emacs (ESS
mode) I get this error:
>
Sys.setenv(PATH="c:/Rtools/bin;c:/Rtools/perl/bin;c:/Rtools/MinGW/bin;c:/cygwin/bin;c:/progra~1/htmhe~1;y:/R/R-2.9.1/bin;c:/windows;c:/windows/system32")
> install.packages("c:/R/vmisc", repos=NULL,
type="source", lib="y:/R/vogranovich/library")
[1] "y:/R/vogranovich/library" "y:/R/R-2.9.1/library"

*** 'hhc.exe' not found: not building CHM help

* Installing *source* package 'vmisc' ...
** libs
  making DLL ...
  ... done
** R
** data
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
Can't locate R/Rdconv.pm in @INC (@INC contains: y /R/R-2.9.1/share/perl;y
/R/R-2.9.1/share/perl;y /R/R-2.9.1/share/perl; /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .) at y:/R/R-2.9.1/share/perl/build-help.pl line
21.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at y:/R/R-2.9.1/share/perl/build-help.pl line
21.
ERROR: building help failed for package 'vmisc'
* Removing 'y:/R/vogranovich/library/vmisc'
* Restoring previous 'y:/R/vogranovich/library/vmisc'
Warning message:
In install.packages("c:/traders/titan/R/vmisc", repos = NULL, type =
"source",  :
  installation of package 'c:/traders/titan/R/vmisc' had non-zero exit
status


It seems that perl's @INC is corrupted, but I don't know how to fix it.


Here is the Emacs version info:
This is GNU Emacs 22.0.96.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2007-03-21 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched)

Did anyone have this problem? I understand that the process of building source
packages in Windows is rather fragile so I'll be happy to live with using
Rgui, but I am asking just in case someone may know.

Thanks,
Vadim

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