R help - Jan 2003 - Creating packages

I am trying to create a package. I have succeeded in running R CMD check
and R CMD build on an Intel box running Redhat. I would now like to
build it on Windows as well. There is no compiled code in the package at
all.

I have downloaded the tools from Brian Ripley's Building R for Windows
page, and installed Active Perl 5.8.0. I have set paths, and Rcmd and the
tools are being found ok. I am having trouble though as follows:

C:\dscott\Temp>ls
hyperb  hyperbtemp

C:\dscott\Temp>set TMPDIR=hyperbtemp

C:\dscott\Temp>Rcmd build hyperb
* checking for file 'hyperb/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'hyperb':
Error: cannot write to 'hyperbtemp/Rutils113288500'

I get a similar cannot write error if I try and run check. 

System details are

platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    1              
minor    6.1            
year     2002           
month    11             
day      01             
language R     

David Scott

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Email:	d.scott at auckland.ac.nz 

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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, David Scott wrote:
>
> I am trying to create a package. I have succeeded in running R CMD check
> and R CMD build on an Intel box running Redhat. I would now like to
> build it on Windows as well. There is no compiled code in the package at
> all.
>
> I have downloaded the tools from Brian Ripley's Building R for Windows
> page, and installed Active Perl 5.8.0. I have set paths, and Rcmd and the
> tools are being found ok. I am having trouble though as follows:
>
> C:\dscott\Temp>ls
> hyperb  hyperbtemp
>
> C:\dscott\Temp>set TMPDIR=hyperbtemp
That needs to be an absolute path, as given in the example in
readme.packages.  I think you may mean c:/dscott/Temp/hyperbtemp.  The
code does not check that it is absolute (nor do I see how one can actually
ensure it).

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