problem with rcmd build R-devel
On further investigation, the problem goes away if you change the usages of system() in build to R_system(). The latter was introduced to avoid exactly the sort of shell-dependent quoting hell that has happened here.
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
`R-devel' is said to be Under development (unstable), so please don't report problems to R-help. (There is an R-devel list to which I have diverted this). The problem is a problem in trying to cope with TMPDIR with spaces in, now fixed, I hope (since it depended on the exact toolset in use). On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, James MacDonald wrote:
Hi All, I am having a problem with Rcmd build using R-devel on WinXP. If I try to build a package using the --binary flag, I get the following error: Error: cannot change to directory ' 'c:/TEMP/Rbuild.XXXX' ' Where XXXX is some number. I can get Rcmd build to work using R-1.7.1 and R-1.8.0, so I don't think it is a permission problem. I looked at the build file, and the relevant portion appears to be the same in all versions:
Notice that is *not* the same error message, and it is not relevant. The clue is the set of quotes around the directory name. Had you copied an actual example such as Error: cannot change to directory `'c:/TEMP/Rbuild.3796'' I would have got there a lot sooner. As the FAQ asks, please report what actually happened, not hypotheses.
if($opt_binary) {
my $libdir = "${R::Vars::TMPDIR}/Rbuild.$$";
mkdir("$libdir", 0755)
or die "Cannot create directory '$libdir'\n";
If I do Rcmd install --build, I get a built .zip file, but it appears that the temp directory is never used.
It is INSTALL not install!
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595