compiling R-devel *on Windows*

Thanks for quick responses from Prof Ripley and Duncan Murdoch.

I tried to play around with TMP and TEMP paths but again with no success.
It looks like the problem was this:
1.  I have texinfo cygwin package installed.
2.  This package has a shell script named texi2dvi
3.  This script is installed in /bin which was before the .../miktex/bin
directory in my PATH variable.

For some reason the texi2dvi script does not process the paths correctly,
or at least not the way that R make process expects it.  After I moved the
miktex/bin in front of /bin in my PATH variable everything works as before.

Thanks again for your time,

Andy

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This is pretty clearly a problem in texi2dvi (which is part of MiKTeX),
not in R, since the line passed is

texi2dvi --pdf --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " R-FAQ.texi

I get

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.6)
entering extended mode
(c:\DOCUME~1\ripley\LOCALS~1\Temp\mik54358\_xtr\R-FAQ.texi
(C:\packages\miktex2.6\tex\texinfo\base\texinfo.tex
...

I think your TMP variable is set to a Cygwin-style path, although when I
experimented with that MiKTeX dropped back to c:\TEMP.

apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:

Hello.

I am in a habit of compiling daily snapshots of R-devel and R-patched on

my

Windows XP workstation.  I have cygwin environment with up-to-date

RTools

and MiKTeX.  I run cygwin and MiKTeX upadaters pretty often (every

couple

of days) so both of them are reasonably current.

Recently I noticed a small annoyance when compiling R-dvel.  It started
happening right after I updated to the new version of RTools (containing
MinGW 4.2.1-sjlj compilers).  Everything else stayed the same with

possible

exception of MiKTeX update.

But there was a change to use texi2dvi if present a couple of weeks ago.

I usually just type "make distribution" to compile everything.  The
compilation itself goes smoothly.  Then the PDF version of the reference
manual is created.  Then I see this:

...
Output written on refman.pdf (1563 pages, 7869936 bytes).
Transcript written on refman.log.
creating doc/manual/version.texi
texi2dvi --pdf --texinfo="@set UseExternalXrefs " R-FAQ.texi
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.6)
entering extended mode
! I can't find file `\tmp\t2d6036\xtr\R-FAQ.texi'.
<*> /tmp/t2d6036/xtr/R-FAQ.texi

Please type another input file name:

Now the file  /tmp/t2d6036/xtr/R-FAQ.texi exists at this point is not

empty

and has usual protection codes.  I tried different versions of back and
front slashes, double backslashes, etc., but to no avail.  I was getting
the same message - the file cannot be found.  The only thing that works

is

the plain file name.  That is, if I just type (or copy and paste) the
string R-FAQ.texi everything works fine.  This happens three times for
every manual (except the refman).  After that the compilation ends
normally, the windows installer is created and, when I run the

installer, I

get everything working correctly including PDFs of the manuals.

It looks to me like the /tmp/t2d6036/xtr/ part of the name gets already
pre-pended to whatever name the make process provides so it expects just
the file name.  Alternatively, something changed in my MiKTeX setup due

to

updates.  However, the refman compiles properly and I can also compile
other LaTeX with no apparent problems.

Thanks in advance,

How do you have your temp directory set?  I'm not sure if it's R or one
of the build tools that's important here, so it's worth looking at all
environment variables TMPDIR, TEMP, TMP, etc.

Are you running the build in Cygwin, or in a Windows CMD window?  I use
Cygwin (not quite so current as yours) and don't see this error.

Duncan Murdoch

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