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Message-ID: <x2wvbo3q3d.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 2001-01-22T09:15:18Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: building packages in Windows under R 1.2.1
In-Reply-To: John Fox's message of "Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:23:17 -0500"

John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> writes:

> More specifically, "rcmd build" produces the following error:
> 
> 	C:\rw1021\src\library>c:\rw1021\bin\rcmd build car
> 	Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory
> 
> It looked to me as if "rcmd build" wanted an environment variable called 
> TMPDIR, so I set one, but this didn't help.

But did you make it contain the name of a valid temporary directory?

The default for TMPDIR is c:/TEMP, so maybe that doesn't exist?
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