R help - Jan 2009 - building windows binary of a package

Hi,

I'm trying to build a Windows binary from a source package using R-2.8.1. I
downloaded Rtools29 and set up the path.
I got this error when running R CMD INSTALL,

make: sh.exe: Command not found
make: *** [pkg-SurvCov] Error 127
*** Installation of SurvCov failed ***

However, I can run 'sh' at the 'cmd' window. Any tips will be
greatly appreciated.

By the way, I can install and run this package on a Linux machine.  It also
passes Rcheck there with a few warnings.

Xiaochun

On 1/20/2009 12:17 PM, Li, Xiaochun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build a Windows binary from a source package using
R-2.8.1. I downloaded Rtools29 and set up the path.
> I got this error when running R CMD INSTALL,
> 
> make: sh.exe: Command not found
> make: *** [pkg-SurvCov] Error 127
> *** Installation of SurvCov failed ***
> 
> However, I can run 'sh' at the 'cmd' window. Any tips will
be greatly appreciated.
I haven't seen that particular error before, but it is almost always a 
PATH problem when this sort of thing happens.

Duncan Murdoch