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Transferring Package from Unix to NT

2 messages · Surapanani, Raja, Brian Ripley

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Surapanani, Raja
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Hello all, 

I currently have a working package called misc in Unix (successfully
completed the process of check, build, and install). So, now I am having
problems installing this package in R for windows... by the way, both
versions of R in Unix and Windows are 1.3
here is the process i went through and the problems I had:

-I zipped up the files from my package in unix: 
	zip -rl ~/misc.zip misc	
-this created a zip file misc.zip and I then transferred this to NT and
unzipped it into C:/rw1030/library
-At this point, I have a folder in C:/rw1030/library with all the correct
files in it...
-I then downloaded the tools from
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/tools.zip and unzipped the tools into
C:/rw1030/src/gnuwin32
- I also installed perl for NT from
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
-I then went into the Ms-DOS command prompt and did a cd to the following
folder: C:/rw1030/src/gnuwin32
- then the following command produced errors: 
	C:\rw1030\src\gnuwin32\> make pkg-misc
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found
	make DLLNM= EXTRADOCS= \
		-C /src/libarary/misc PKG=misc RHOME= RLIB=/library \
		-f /src/gnuwin32/MakePkg
	make: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found     	
	make: *** [pkg-misc] Error 127

I don't understand why it's not finding sh.exe. To try to fix it I also
unzipped tools.zip into C:/rw1030/bin folder and the same error occurs... Is
there some sort of problem with the environment variables or maybe with
perl? Any help would be appreciated. 

thanks, 
    raja
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Brian Ripley
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On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Surapanani, Raja wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
If this is a source package, it should be in C:/rw1030/src/library: it is
installed to R_HOME/library.

            

      
      
      
    

        
You need to follow the instructions in readme.packages:

  All of these need to be installed and in your path, and the
  appropriate environment variables set.  Edit MkRules to set BUILD and

Whyever would C:/rw1030/src/gnuwin32 be in your path or a suitable place?

            

      
      
      
    

        
Is C:/rw1030/bin in your path?
The messages mean that there is no sh.exe in your path.  You could of
course create /bin and put sh.exe there ... you will have the same
trouble on Unix if the shell is not in your path.


I am getting rather short of time to answer queries like this.
I hope readers will find acceptable that in future I will only send
private replies along the lines of

`Read readme.packages carefully'

or whatever, particularly to commercial (.com) R users.