Message-ID: <4e8f94ce-b83d-55e0-ea3e-0675f2085ec2@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-04-05T18:13:07Z
From: Tomas Kalibera
Subject: symbols.rds error 1
In-Reply-To: <20220405162520.4e703d31@arachnoid>
On 4/5/22 15:25, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 15:08:10 +0200
> Roman Savchenko <gmstima at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Error in system(sprintf("%s -Pg %s", nm, shQuote(f)), intern = TRUE) :
>> '""' not found
> This does highlight a minor bug in R (an empty string is accidentally
> quoted, so the absence of nm on the PATH isn't noted), but your setup
> is part of the problem too, I think. How did you install Rtools? (Is it
> appropriate here? Is R-pkg-devel a better fit?)
>
> Here's the patch fixing the check (but not the reason why R can't find
> nm on your machine):
>
> --- src/library/tools/R/sotools.R (revision 82033)
> +++ src/library/tools/R/sotools.R (working copy)
> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
> if(!nzchar(nm)) {
> ## reasonable to assume nm is on the path
> nm <- Sys.which("nm")
> - if(!nzchar(nm)) nm <- shQuote(nm)
> + if(nzchar(nm)) nm <- shQuote(nm)
> }
> if(!nzchar(nm)) {
> warning("this requires 'nm' to be on the PATH")
Thanks, fixed in R
Tomas
>