problem installing packages from source on win2k
The short answer is that you are not following readme.packages, which says If you want to make compiled html (.chm) files you will need the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop, currently available for download at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/hwmicrosofthtmlhelpdownloads.asp and http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/appndx/appa06.htm All of these need to be installed and in your path, and the appropriate environment variables set. hhc.exe is part of HHW, and it is not in your path. If you don't want to make .chm files, you can edit src/gnuwin32/MkRules appropriately.
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Simon Cawley wrote:
Dear R-helpers, I'm having trouble compiling R packages from source on Win2K. I installed R 1.7.1beta [1] on my win2k machine [2], downloaded the fields package as source [3] and tried but failed to install the package [4]. I get the same problem with other packages, so it doesn't appear to be limited to fields. Installation of precompiled packages seems to work fine. I've been doing this on linux for a long time and never ran into such an issue.
Maybe someone else set your Linux box up so all the tools were installed?
I've trawled the FAQ and the archives but I'm not finding anything. Any clues where I'm going wrong?
Thanks in advance, -Simon ############## Notes: [1] Version of R: 1.7.1 Beta, obtained from <http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/r-devel/rw1071beta.exe> on 6-13-2003 [2] Output from version: platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status Beta major 1 minor 7.1 year 2003 month 06 day 06 language R [3] fields 1.3.1 package downloaded from <http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/fields_1.3-1.tar.gz>. [4] within cygwin bash shell, I ran the following: Rcmd install fields_1.3-1.tar.gz which dies with the error . hhc: not found cp: cannot stat `c:/tmp/R.INSTALL/fields/chm/fields.chm': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [chm-fields] Error 1 make: *** [pkg-fields] Error 2 *** Installation of fields failed ***
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