Dear list members, I''m experiencing difficulty in building a package in R 1.2.1 under Windows 2000, using, as far as I can tell, the same approach that I used successfully in R 1.2.0. More specifically, "rcmd build" produces the following error: C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1021\bin\rcmd build car Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory It looked to me as if "rcmd build" wanted an environment variable called TMPDIR, so I set one, but this didn''t help. Curiously, "rcmd build" under R.1.2.0 (which is also on my system) still works: C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1020\bin\rcmd build car * checking for file `car/DESCRIPTION'' ... OK * preparing `car'': * checking whether `INDEX'' is up-to-date ... NO * creating new INDEX * checking whether `data/00Index'' is up-to-date ... NO * creating new data/00Index * removing junk files * building `car_0.6-0.tar.gz'' After this, I can use "rcmd check" and "rcmd install" from version 1.2.1 to finish the job: C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1021\bin\rcmd check car * checking for working latex ... OK * using log directory C:/rw1021/src/library/car.Rcheck . . . C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1021\bin\rcmd install car make: Entering directory `/rw1021/src/gnuwin32'' make DLLNM= EXTRADOCS= \ . . . The package in question includes no compiled code. Any help you might offer would be appreciated. Thanks, John ________________________________ John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University email: jfox at McMaster.ca web: www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox ________________________________ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> writes:> More specifically, "rcmd build" produces the following error: > > C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1021\bin\rcmd build car > Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory > > It looked to me as if "rcmd build" wanted an environment variable called > TMPDIR, so I set one, but this didn''t help.But did you make it contain the name of a valid temporary directory? The default for TMPDIR is c:/TEMP, so maybe that doesn''t exist? -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /''_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, John Fox wrote:> Dear list members, > > I''m experiencing difficulty in building a package in R 1.2.1 under Windows > 2000, using, as far as I can tell, the same approach that I used > successfully in R 1.2.0. > > More specifically, "rcmd build" produces the following error: > > C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1021\bin\rcmd build car > Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory > > It looked to me as if "rcmd build" wanted an environment variable called > TMPDIR, so I set one, but this didn''t help.Yes, it does (and did under 1.2.0 unless c:/TEMP exists, which I think it usually does under Windows 2000). In this version it actually tests for the existence of the directory. Which Perl version do you have? I am baffled: this works for me under NT and 98 with three different Perl versions. The symptom is that whatever Perl things $TMPDIR is does not exist. Can you print out and check via if($WINDOWS){ $tmpdir = R_getenv("TMPDIR", "/TEMP"); print "tmpdir is $tmpdir\n"; # added line die "Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory\n" unless (-d $TMPDIR);> > Curiously, "rcmd build" under R.1.2.0 (which is also on my system) still works: > > C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1020\bin\rcmd build car > * checking for file `car/DESCRIPTION'' ... OK > * preparing `car'': > * checking whether `INDEX'' is up-to-date ... NO > * creating new INDEX > * checking whether `data/00Index'' is up-to-date ... NO > * creating new data/00Index > * removing junk files > * building `car_0.6-0.tar.gz'' > > After this, I can use "rcmd check" and "rcmd install" from version 1.2.1 to > finish the job: > > C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1021\bin\rcmd check car > * checking for working latex ... OK > * using log directory C:/rw1021/src/library/car.Rcheck > > . . .Well, one usually does check before build, and check contains identical code for the test, so I am even more baffled. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Hi, Could it be because of is PATH and/or RHOME. He says it still works with R 1.2.0. Yves Gauvreau B.E.F.P. Universite du Quebec a Montreal cyg at sympatico.ca> -----Message d''origine----- > De : owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch]De la part de Prof Brian Ripley > Envoye : Monday, January 22, 2001 4:15 AM > A : John Fox > Cc : r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Objet : Re: [R] building packages in Windows under R 1.2.1 > > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, John Fox wrote: > > > Dear list members, > > > > I''m experiencing difficulty in building a package in R 1.2.1 > under Windows > > 2000, using, as far as I can tell, the same approach that I used > > successfully in R 1.2.0. > > > > More specifically, "rcmd build" produces the following error: > > > > C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1021\bin\rcmd build car > > Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory > > > > It looked to me as if "rcmd build" wanted an environment variable called > > TMPDIR, so I set one, but this didn''t help. > > Yes, it does (and did under 1.2.0 unless c:/TEMP exists, which I think it > usually does under Windows 2000). In this version it actually tests for > the existence of the directory. > > Which Perl version do you have? I am baffled: this works for me under NT > and 98 with three different Perl versions. The symptom is that whatever > Perl things $TMPDIR is does not exist. Can you print out and check via > > if($WINDOWS){ > $tmpdir = R_getenv("TMPDIR", "/TEMP"); > print "tmpdir is $tmpdir\n"; # added line > die "Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory\n" > unless (-d $TMPDIR); > > > > > > Curiously, "rcmd build" under R.1.2.0 (which is also on my > system) still works: > > > > C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1020\bin\rcmd build car > > * checking for file `car/DESCRIPTION'' ... OK > > * preparing `car'': > > * checking whether `INDEX'' is up-to-date ... NO > > * creating new INDEX > > * checking whether `data/00Index'' is up-to-date ... NO > > * creating new data/00Index > > * removing junk files > > * building `car_0.6-0.tar.gz'' > > > > After this, I can use "rcmd check" and "rcmd install" from > version 1.2.1 to > > finish the job: > > > > C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1021\bin\rcmd check car > > * checking for working latex ... OK > > * using log directory C:/rw1021/src/library/car.Rcheck > > > > . . . > > Well, one usually does check before build, and check contains identical > code for the test, so I am even more baffled. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. > -.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-help mailing list -- Readhttp://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _._ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Yves Gauvreau wrote:> Hi, > > Could it be because of is PATH and/or RHOME. He says it still works with R > 1.2.0.The code is new in 1.2.1, and identical code in Rcmd clean works. It looks like a Windows Perl bug. On my machines under NT4 and 98 this works because -d foo seems to be always true! It is probably different on 2000. Try changing the line unless (-d $TMPDIR); to unless (-e $tmpdir); It may also depend on the Perl version. We know that system() is broken in builds later than ca 619, for example. It''s strange that after years of problems with the make and shell, Perl is now misbehaving. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Dear Brian, At 12:46 PM 22/01/2001 +0000, you wrote:>The code is new in 1.2.1, and identical code in Rcmd clean works. It looks >like a Windows Perl bug. On my machines under NT4 and 98 this works >because -d foo seems to be always true! It is probably different on 2000. > >Try changing the line > > unless (-d $TMPDIR); > >to > unless (-e $tmpdir);Yes, this does the trick for me. For the record, I have version v5.6.0 of Perl; I do have a c:\temp directory; and I did explicitly set TMPDIR to a valid directory when I first encountered the problem. Thanks to Brian for the solution, and to Peter Dalgaard for trying to help. John ________________________________ John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University email: jfox at McMaster.ca web: www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox ________________________________ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._