R help - Apr 2003 - R-1.7.0 WIN2000 INSTALL

This is the first time I've ever compiled from sources so bear with me.

OS: Windows 2000
PATH:
   .:
   D:/Rtools/:
   D:/mingw/bin/:
   C:/Progra~1/Perl/bin:
   D:/texmf/miktex/bin/:
   D:/Progra~1/HTMLHe~1:
   D:/Progra~1/R/rw1062/bin/:
   C:/Progra~1/Insightful/splus61/cmd/:
   D:/cygwin/bin:
   D:/Progra~1/SSHCom~1/SSHSec~1:
   D:/Progra~1/Tcl/bin/:
   C:/Progra~1/Microso~3/VC98/Bin

I've read src/gnuwin32/INSTALL and changed all the pertintent lines in 
src/gnuwin32/MkRules.

I'm running `make' under a bash shell. I couldn't get `make' to
run in a
DOS shell (I'm not sure why). I've removed `cygwin1.dll' and 
`cygpcre.dll' in the cygwin directory so as not to conflict with the 
ones supplied in `Rtools.zip'. Then when I run `make' in src/gnuwin32/ 
it seems to work fine until it reaches this point:

dlltool -k --as as   --dllname Rblas.dll \
   --def Rblas.def --output-lib libRblas.a
d:\mingw\bin\dlltool.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `as'
make[1]: *** [libRblas.a] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/R/R-1.7.0/src/gnuwin32'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any ideas? Need more info?

Best,
Sundar

Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:
> This is the first time I've ever compiled from sources so bear with me.
> 
> OS: Windows 2000
> PATH:
>   .:
>   D:/Rtools/:
>   D:/mingw/bin/:
>   C:/Progra~1/Perl/bin:
>   D:/texmf/miktex/bin/:
>   D:/Progra~1/HTMLHe~1:
>   D:/Progra~1/R/rw1062/bin/:
>   C:/Progra~1/Insightful/splus61/cmd/:
>   D:/cygwin/bin:
>   D:/Progra~1/SSHCom~1/SSHSec~1:
>   D:/Progra~1/Tcl/bin/:
>   C:/Progra~1/Microso~3/VC98/Bin
> 
> I've read src/gnuwin32/INSTALL and changed all the pertintent lines in 
> src/gnuwin32/MkRules.
> 
> I'm running `make' under a bash shell. I couldn't get
`make' to run in a
> DOS shell (I'm not sure why). 
For compiling R, make is ought to be executed in the windows command 
shell. Please start debugging here ...

Uwe Ligges

 > I've removed `cygwin1.dll' and
> `cygpcre.dll' in the cygwin directory so as not to conflict with the 
> ones supplied in `Rtools.zip'. Then when I run `make' in
src/gnuwin32/
> it seems to work fine until it reaches this point:
> 
> dlltool -k --as as   --dllname Rblas.dll \
>   --def Rblas.def --output-lib libRblas.a
> d:\mingw\bin\dlltool.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `as'
> make[1]: *** [libRblas.a] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/R/R-1.7.0/src/gnuwin32'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Any ideas? Need more info?
> 
> Best,
> Sundar
> 
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> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Thanks for the replies. I've taken the suggestion of removing cygwin and 
all registry keys (that I can find). Again here is my path:

D:\R\R-17~1.0\src\gnuwin32>path
PATH=C:\Program Files\Perl\bin\;
C:\WINNT\system32;
C:\WINNT;
C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;
"C:\Program Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\7.00\Accessories\";
.;
D:\Rtools\;
D:\mingw\bin\;
C:\Progra~1\Perl\bin;
D:\texmf\miktex\bin\;
D:\Progra~1\HTMLHe~1;
D:\Progra~1\R\rw1062\bin\;
C:\Progra~1\Insightful\splus61\cmd\;
D:\Progra~1\SSHCom~1\SSHSec~1;
D:\Progra~1\Tcl\bin\;
C:\Progra~1\Microso~3\VC98\Bin;

Everything before the . is prepended by the administrator. After 
modifying src\gnuwin32\MkRules, I try `make' in the same directory:

D:\R\R-17~1.0\src\gnuwin32>make
make --no-print-directory -C front-ends Rpwd
make: *** [front-ends/Rpwd.exe] Error 255

D:\R\R-17~1.0\src\gnuwin32>

Here's another anomaly that I've worked around though it may be related:
If I type `tar zxvf R-1.7.0.tgz' at the command prompt I get a dialog 
box listing the tar options and no untarring is accomplished. I was able 
to use tar properly in the bash shell to extract everyting before I 
deleted the cygwin directory.

Any clues? Have I missed something obvious?

Regards,
Sundar

Thomas Stockton wrote:
> Sundar,
> 
> Looks like Perl is in the PATH before ".". ?
> 
> Tom
> 

It seems that this was the problem and R was installed successfully. 
However, none of the Recommended packages were installed (i.e. those 
packages found in D:\R\R-1.7.0\src\library\Recommended\*.tgz). And if I 
try to use install.packages I get:

 > install.packages("nlme")
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/PACKAGES'
Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 8762 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 8762 bytes

Warning message:
No package "nlme" on CRAN. in: download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd,
available = available,
 >


Regards,
Sundar