R CMD install on R 2.5.0 alpha

Hi.

On 4/7/07, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

Nothing has changed here for three months, AFAICS.  However, I noticed you
have installed R into a directory with a space in the path, despite the
advice not to.  OTOH, I have just tested installing where you did, and
was able to install R.oo:

[c:/Program Files/R/R-2.5.0alpha/bin]% ./Rcmd INSTALL 
d:/R/packages/contrib/R.oo_1.2.3.tar.gz
installing to 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-25~1.0AL/library'
...

Thank you for this confirmation.  It is odd though, because so have
also I done successfully for years.

On Windows, INSTALL is a Perl script.  Please debug it to see what is
going wrong on your setup (it is working for many others).

I will debug INSTALL to see what might go wrong.  I'll see if I can
locate an earlier version of R 2.5.0 alpha to see if the error really
is there or not.

You can of course specify -l to workaround this.

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

Hi,

I've just downloaded the latest R v2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043) for

That is not the latest binary build I am offered, let alone the latest
sources.

Got it from the UC Davis CRAN mirror about an one hour before my message.

Thanks

Henrik

WinXP.  When I try to
install a package R tries to install it to a no-name (empty name)
directory (causing error downstream):

RCMD INSTALL R.oo
installing to ''

FYI: Package install perfectly on R v2.4.1 patched, and did so also on
earlier R v2.5.0 devel/alpha(?) versions.

Current directory is:
C:\tmp

with subdirectory R.oo/ containing inst/ man/ R/ DESCRIPTION as usual.

I noticed the following in CHANGES and NEWS related to R CMD INSTALL:

o     R CMD INSTALL now installs by default into the first library on
      the library path if R was run in the current environment.
      Similarly, R CMD REMOVE by default removes from that library.
      R CMD INSTALL does a better job of removing its temporary
      directory.

o     R CMD INSTALL and R CMD REMOVE now use as the default library
      (if -l is not specified) the first library that would be used
      if R were run in the current environment (and they run R to
      find it).

   o  R CMD INSTALL now prepends the installation directory (if
      specified) to the library search path.

But my I do have:

.libPaths()

[1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.5.0alpha/library"

My setup:
echo %RHOME%:
C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-2.5.0alpha

.libPaths()

[1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.5.0alpha/library"

sessionInfo()

R version 2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043)
i386-pc-mingw32
locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United 

States.1252;LC_MON

ETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United 

States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
[7] "base"


Any help appreciated

Henrik

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