Error in R CMD INSTALL on Windows XP using Rtools28

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
  

On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, cstrato wrote:

    

Dear Duncan

Thank you for this explicit explanation, you are right:

When setting the system variable "Path" (as administrator) in 
addition to setting the user variable "PATH" (as user), now 
everything works fine.

Interestingly, setting the system variable "Path" on my laptop with 
Rtools27 seems not to be necessary.

May I suggest that  this could be clarified in "R Installation and 
Administration" since there only the user variable "PATH" is 
mentioned (as far as I see).
      

In a shell there is only one PATH, so the manual is correct.
    

I did not say that the manual is not correct, I only suggested to 
clarify the issue, since when running R CMD INSTALL from the Command 
Console I need to set also the system variable "Path".
  

Thank you all one more time.
Best regards
Christian


Duncan Murdoch wrote:
      

cstrato wrote:
        

Dear all

Thank you all for you fast reply.

As I said, everything on my laptop and Mac is identical, here are 
my user defined environment variables:

HOME: c:\home\Rabbitus
INCLUDE: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 
9.0\VC\include;C:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include
LIB: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio
9.0\VC\lib;C:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib;C:\root\lib
PATH: 
C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Programme\HTML 
Help Workshop;C:\Programme\R\R-2.8.0\bin;C:\root\bin;
MSVSPATH: C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin
ROOTSYS: c:\root
R_LIBS: cd "C:\home\Rabbitus\CRAN"
TMPDIR: c:\home\Rabbitus\temp

          

I think Brian was right, your PATH is not what is shown above.  
(That doesn't include the Windows directories, for instance.)

Were you running Rcmd INSTALL from a shell?  Which shell?  What does 
the shell report as your PATH just before running it?
On Windows, the PATH is handled in a fairly complicated way.  I 
believe this description is correct, but it may not apply to all 
Windows versions:

The thing you set from within the Control Panel only applies to the 
currently running copy of Explorer.  Other applications that are 
currently running (e.g. an existing CMD shell) do not have their 
path updated.

There are both system and user level PATH settings.  Explorer 
combines them by putting the system settings *first*.
Within a CMD shell, you can override the PATH completely, just by 
setting it to a new set of directories.

So it looks as though your problem is that your are showing us the 
user settings for the PATH, but not the system settings, and the 
system settings are messing you up.

Duncan Murdoch
        

I have just checked again, all variables are identical on both 
systems.

Could there be another reason?
What about the registry setting mentioned by Gabor Grothendieck?

Best regaards
Christian


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

          

This is a PATH error: you must have Rtools/bin before Windows 
system directories in your path.  As the R-admin manual tells you 
explicitly ....

fortune("WTFM") applies.

On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, cstrato wrote:


            

Dear all

When trying to install my package on Windows XP on my Mac, I get 
the following error:

---------- Making package xps ------------
...
...
xpsDict.cxx
"C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin/link" /dll 
/def:xps.def /out:xps.dll fp10.obj  -opt:noref  -nologo 
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Hist -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Graf1 
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__G3D -include:_G__cpp_setupG__GPad 
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Tree -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Rint 
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__PostScript 
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Matrix -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Physics 
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Ged  "C:\root/lib/libCore.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libCint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libHist.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGraf3d.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTree.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libRint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPostscript.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libMatrix.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPhysics.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libNet.lib" "C:\root/lib/libRIO.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libMathCore.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGui.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libGed.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTreePlayer.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libTreeViewer.lib" *.obj
 Creating library xps.lib and object xps.exp
... done
installing DLL
installing R files
installing inst files
FIND: Parameterformat falsch
make[2]: *** [C:/home/Rabbitus/CRAN/xps.Rcheck/xps/inst] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [pkg-xps] Error 2
*** Installation of xps failed ***


However, when I install my package on my Windows XP laptop, 
everything is ok:

---------- Making package xps ------------
...
...
xpsDict.cxx
"C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin/link" /dll 
/def:xps.def /out:xps.dll fp10.obj  -opt:noref  -nologo 
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Hist -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Graf1 
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__G3D -include:_G__cpp_setupG__GPad 
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Tree -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Rint 
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__PostScript 
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Matrix -include:_G__cpp_setupG__Physics 
-include:_G__cpp_setupG__Ged  "C:\root/lib/libCore.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libCint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libHist.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGraf3d.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTree.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libRint.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPostscript.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libMatrix.lib" "C:\root/lib/libPhysics.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libNet.lib" "C:\root/lib/libRIO.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libMathCore.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGui.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libGraf.lib" "C:\root/lib/libGpad.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libGed.lib" "C:\root/lib/libTreePlayer.lib" 
"C:\root/lib/libTreeViewer.lib" *.obj
 Creating library xps.lib and object xps.exp
... done
installing DLL
installing R files
installing inst files
preparing package xps for lazy loading
installing man source files
installing indices
Warning messages:
1: In file.create(f.tg) :
kann Datei 'c:/Programme/R/R-2.8.0/doc/html/packages.html' nicht 
erzeugen. Grund 'Permission denied'
2: In tools:::win.packages.html(.Library) :
kann HTML Paketindex nicht aktualisieren
installing help

              

Building/Updating help pages for package 'xps'

                    

...

To my knowledge I have only made one difference when installing 
everything necessary to build my package:
On my laptop I have installed Rtools27.exe, while on WinXP on my 
Mac I have installed Rtools28.exe.

Do you know what the reason for the error might be?

Thank you in advance.
Best regards
Christian
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n   S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a
V.i.e.n.n.a           A.u.s.t.r.i.a
e.m.a.i.l:        cstrato at aon.at
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._