R devel - Jan 2014 - Error when making R in Windows

Hi all,

         I¡¯m trying to build R (32-bit) under Windows 7 (64-bit).

         To do so, I just use ¡±make all recommended¡± as mentioned in the
documents and it does work for R 2.15.2.

         However, for R 3.0.2, I get the following error message,

                   gcc -shared -s -static-libgcc -o tools.dll tmp.def text.o
init.o Rmd5.o md5.o signals.o install.o getfmts.o http.o gramLatex.o gramRd.
o ../../../gnuwin32/dllversion.o -L../.././../bin/i386 -lR

Error in parse(n = -1, file = file, srcfile = NULL, keep.source = FALSE) :

  invalid multibyte character in parser at line 32021

Error: unable to load R code in package 'tools'

Execution halted

make[2]: *** [all] Error 1

make[1]: *** [R] Error 1

make: *** [all] Error 2

         It seems that I get stuck in building the package ¡®tools¡¯.

Shall I just replace the codes for ¡®tools¡¯ with those from R 2.15.2?

         Thanks for your help.

Ziqiang Zhao

2014-01-18

 

 


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The issue is that your version of Windows is not properly changing to a 
C locale.  The solution is to start the build in an 8-bit (preferably C) 
locale.

This is documented in R-patched at least: see the posting guide (which 
asked you to try R-patched before posting) and 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Building-from-source

BTW: your email is not encoded correctly, so it may be that you have 
more pervasive locale breakages on your system.


On 18/01/2014 08:01, ??? wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>           I??m trying to build R (32-bit) under Windows 7 (64-bit).
>
>           To do so, I just use ??make all recommended?? as mentioned in the
> documents and it does work for R 2.15.2.
>
>           However, for R 3.0.2, I get the following error message,
>
>                     gcc -shared -s -static-libgcc -o tools.dll tmp.def
text.o
> init.o Rmd5.o md5.o signals.o install.o getfmts.o http.o gramLatex.o
gramRd.
> o ../../../gnuwin32/dllversion.o -L../.././../bin/i386 -lR
>
> Error in parse(n = -1, file = file, srcfile = NULL, keep.source = FALSE) :
>
>    invalid multibyte character in parser at line 32021
>
> Error: unable to load R code in package 'tools'
>
> Execution halted
>
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 1
>
> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
>
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>           It seems that I get stuck in building the package ??tools??.
>
> Shall I just replace the codes for ??tools?? with those from R 2.15.2?
>
>           Thanks for your help.
>
> Ziqiang Zhao
>
> 2014-01-18
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
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