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list.files() (and dir()) don't appear to return names of directories when one uses the recursive=T argument. E.g., > dir(file.path(R.home(),"library"), pattern="^R$", recursive=T) [1] "Malmig/help/R" but the unix find commmand finds lots of R directories > z <- system(paste("find", file.path(R.home(),"library"), "-name

...aded I previously used C:\Program Files\R\rw2011\library as my library for CRAN packages and did not have a problem but now that I use C:\Program Files\R\library this problem has started. I actually can get it to work by doing either of the following: 1. install quadprog into \Program Files\R\rw2011path\library instead of in \Program Files\R\library, or 2. install mypackage into \Program Files\R\library via: rcmd install mypackage -l c:\PROGRA~1\R\library However, I can't seem to install mypackage into \Rpkgs\library like I want due to the error I showed above. I have \Program Fil...

...* checking for file 'sundar/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'sundar': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * removing junk files Error: cannot open file 'sundar/DESCRIPTION' for reading If this is relevant, here is my PATH: C:\WINDOWS\system32; C:\WINDOWS; .; D:\R\rw2011pat\bin; D:\R\tools\bin; D:\Perl\bin; D:\Tcl\bin; D:\TeXLive\bin\win32; D:\Mingw\bin; C:\Program Files\Insightful\splus62\cmd; C:\Program Files\HTML Help Workshop Here, the D:\R\tools\bin directory contains the utilities for building R from source, downloaded today. Am I missing something obvious? Th...

Dear Gabor, Thank your for helping me so much! I have loaded R the newest version 2.1.1. Then I setup it in the path of D:\program files\R\ 1. unpack tools.zip into c:\cygwin 2. install Active perl in c:\Perl 3. install the mingw32 in c:\mingwin 4. add "c:\cygwin; c:\mingwin\bin" in "Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> Path ->