Error in gzfile(file, mode) when checking a package with rcmd check

On 11-11-06 1:59 PM, Patrick Giraudoux wrote:

Le 06/11/2011 19:47, Milan Bouchet-Valat a ?crit :

Le dimanche 06 novembre 2011 ? 19:31 +0100, Patrick Giraudoux a ?crit :

Means "Mes documents" seems not to be the real cause, but the "On
Work" directory. However, replacing "On Work" by "On_work" gives a
failure as before. Conclusion: looks like if the "space" character is
not the problem, but the length of the path or the number of embedded
directories (?).

Is "On Work" the actual name, or a translation? Accentuated characters
are often the cause of bugs in filenames.


Cheers

Yes. There is no accent just a space as in "Documents and settings" or
"My Documents" or "Mes documents". To check if there was really a
'space' problem, I have renamed "On Work" to "On_work" (with no space),
and rcmd check does not work better.

Rcmd check works fine only when the pgirmess folder is moved one
directory up (so still on a path that still have 'space' in directory
names, e.g. "Documents and Settings" and "Mes documents".

Quite strange.

Windows historically had quite a short limit on pathnames (something like
260 characters, or bytes), and also on command lines. ?I don't know what the
current limits are, but R has the 260 limit coded into it, and likely some
of our other tools do too. ?Your paths don't approach that limit, but once
you put several copies of them into one command line, you would. ?I suspect
that's what is catching you.

Duncan Murdoch