Package build error

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 3:42 PM
To: Doran, Harold
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Package build error

On 11/9/2009 3:13 PM, Doran, Harold wrote:

I've run into a problem building a package with R-2.10.0 

that I haven't encountered with prior versions. Build and 
check work fine. However, I encounter an error at the install 
phase indicating it cannot open a perl script, which is 
below. For completeness, I've copied my path as well showing 
that I do have the correct R tools needed, which includes perl.

C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin>Rcmd build g:\foo
* checking for file 'g:\foo/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'g:\foo':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* removing junk files
tar: foo/NAMESPACE: time stamp 2009-11-09 14:53:03 is 23 s in the 
future
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* building 'foo_1.0.tar.gz'


C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin>Rcmd check g:\foo
* checking for working pdflatex ...pdflatex: not found  NO
* checking for working latex ...latex: not found  NO
* using log directory 'C:/Program Files/R/R-2.10.0/bin/foo.Rcheck'
* using R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
* using session charset: ISO8859-1
* checking for file 'foo/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* checking extension type ... Package
* this is package 'foo' version '1.0'
* checking package name space information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
file: not found
* checking for .dll and .exe files ... OK
* checking whether package 'foo' can be installed ... OK
* checking package directory ... OK
* checking for portable file names ... OK
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking top-level files ... OK
* checking index information ... OK
* checking package subdirectories ... OK
* checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
* checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
* checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
* checking whether the package can be loaded with stated 

dependencies 

... OK
* checking whether the name space can be loaded with stated 
dependencies ... OK
* checking for unstated dependencies in R code ... OK
* checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
* checking replacement functions ... OK
* checking foreign function calls ... OK
* checking R code for possible problems ... OK
* checking Rd files ... OK
* checking Rd metadata ... OK
* checking Rd cross-references ... OK
* checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
* checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
* checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
* checking examples ... OK


C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin>Rcmd install g:\foo Can't open perl 
script "C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-210~1.0/bin/install": No such file or di 
rectory

The INSTALL script is now internal, and needs to be entered 
as INSTALL, not install.

Duncan Murdoch

### Here is my windows path, which has perl

C:\Program Files\Common 

Files\OTG;c:\Rtools\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;c:\texmf\mikt

ek\bin;c:\cygwin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\Syste

m32\Wbem;C:\subversion\Subversion\bin;C:\Program 

Files\R\R-2.10.0\bin; 

;C:\PROGRA~1\DISKEE~1\DISKEE~1\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\

sessionInfo()

R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  

methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.10.0