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Two comments:

1) Rcmd build does not install packages, it packages up source packages.
As all the documentation says it is Rcmd INSTALL which installs a source
package.

2) You have ignored the advice not to have spaces in your path, and the
request at the top of readme.packages `not to report problems to R-help
unless you have followed all the prescriptions', one of which is

   Do not use paths with spaces in: you can always use the short forms.

And as you have discovered, that advice was given for a good reason.
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Ghislaine Guigon wrote: