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Windows, RCMD INSTALL and path (PR#939)

2 messages · david.firth@nuf.ox.ac.uk, Brian Ripley

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david.firth@nuf.ox.ac.uk
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Full_Name: David Firth
Version: 1.2.3
OS: Windows NT4
Submission from: (NULL) (163.1.103.107)


Two things that look like bugs:

1.  RCMD INSTALL does not seem to cope with quotes in the Windows path.  With my
path set to

  PATH="C:\R\Rtools";"C:\R\rw1023\bin";C:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\
 
  mingw2\bin

I get, for example, 

  C:\R>RCMD INSTALL boot
  RCMD INSTALL boot

  make: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/R/rw1023/src/gnuwin32'
  make DLLNM=  EXTRADOCS= \
    -C C:/R/boot PKG=boot RHOME=C:/R/rw1023 RLIB=C:/R/rw1023/library \
    -f C:/R/rw1023/src/gnuwin32/MakePkg
  make: make: Command not found
  make: *** [pkg-boot] Error 127
  make: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/R/rw1023/src/gnuwin32'
  *** Installation of boot failed ***

But if I remove the quotes, as in

  PATH=C:\R\Rtools;C:\R\rw1023\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\ 

  mingw2\bin

then all goes as it should.

(Why do I have the quotes there anyway, you ask?  Well, I started out with

  PATH="C:Program Files\R\Rtools";"C:Program
Files\R\rw1023\bin";C:\Perl\bin\;C:\
  WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\mingw2.bin

but then RCMD INSTALL failed even more rapidly, presumably on account of the
space in the directory name?)

If this can't be fixed, perhaps add a note in the documentation about these
things?  (I looked in "Writing R Extensions" but found no mention of this
problem.)

2.  A smaller thing I noticed in help(INSTALL): under "Usage:" it should say
"Rcmd", not "Rcnd".

Best regards -- David


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Brian Ripley
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On Fri, 11 May 2001 david.firth@nuffield.oxford.ac.uk wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I'd say the other way round. Nowhere does it say that it will work with
quotes.

            

      
      
      
    

        
We didn't ask you to stop beating your wife because it never occurred to
us that you would....

Note, though, this is a problem with the tools, not with anything we
provide, and the rw-FAQ does warn about spaces in paths.  Latex, for
example, will fail with spaces in path names.

Also

Building
--------

You also need the R source (R-1.3.0.tgz).

Then: untar R-1.3.0.tgz somewhere (with no spaces in the path names),

might be hint.

            

      
      
      
    

        
Already fixed.