RCMD check error windows
Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
Dear Lister, I am working with Windows XP and R 2.1.0 and can check and build home-made packages easily (just *.r, *.rmd, *.rda files, no compiled code). However for some reasons, I cannot check or build the package 'foreign' from the source (I took it as an exercise...). After some lines of sentences OK (here omitted and replaced by ...), I get a message like this: RCMD check foreign ... installing R.css in 'C:/R/rw2010/src/library/foreign.Rcheck' -------Making package foreign------------------- adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION intalling NAMESPACE file and metadata making dll make[4]: ***[libR.a] Error 255 make[3]: ***[libR.] Error 2 make[2]: ***[srcDynlib] Error 2 make[1]: ***[all] Error 2 make: ***[pkg-foreign] Error 2 *** Installation of foreign failed *** Removing 'C:/R/rw2010/src/library/foreign.Rcheck/foreign' ERROR Installation failed I can hardly find out what it means... I suspect it may come from a path not well defined or some batch file lacking, but I can hardly guess exactly which ones... The documentation 'writing R extension' pages 8-9 (high suspicion that if I could understand it fully, I could solve the problem) is still obscure to me on this subject. Can anybody put me on the right track? Patrick
Is this a full installation of R (I guess you have not compiled it yourself)? If yes, does gcc, perl and friends work? In the first place, libR.a must be compiled at this point which should happen automatically. But it is really hard to say which of the tools fails exactly. Uwe Ligges