[R] 1.4.1 R CMD check broken?

Prof Brian D Ripley
Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:02:18 -0000

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:

>
> Thanks for all who responded to this.
>
> I guess I did nor realize that the check should only be run on the packages
> installed from sources.
>
> There was no particular reason for me to check ctest.  I used to install R
> on my Win machine in the "Program Files" folder.  The space in
path seems
> to break some Perl scripts, so when I tried to run Rcmd check, it would
> complain that it could not find "C:/Program" or something
similar.  I
> installed the newest version in C:/R and was simply trying to see if I
> could run Rcmd check.

The warning is still there in (in several places) not to install in a path
with spaces in if you want to use source packages.

This is relaxed in R-devel, but not the sort of thing done in a patch
release.

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