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R CMD build

8 messages · Knut Krueger, Henrik Bengtsson, Gabor Grothendieck

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I was looking for the problem at least two days.. and just after writing 
to the list I found rcmd.exe in the
C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.2\bin\i386 directory.
install
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/?source=dlp
chage the path variable of windows and set the path in front of the 
others C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin\

problems with windows 7 :
Rund the cmd console as administrator and it is working

Maybe anybody can add this to 
http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/utils/html/PkgUtils.html
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On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Knut Krueger <rh at knut-krueger.de> wrote:
Note that there is a separate directory for the 64-bit R executables.
Also, downloading MinGW should not be needed.  Rtools already contains
the needed UNIX utilities.

You might want to look into the Windows batch files at
http://batchfiles.googlecode.com .
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Am 20.04.2013 15:50, schrieb Gabor Grothendieck:
Does it make any difference to check and pack the source files iwth 32 
or 64 bit?
Yes indeed it works better than MinGW
At least it would be very helpful for windows user to give the hint to 
the executable rcmd.exe build ... instead of R cmd build ...

I already set up an linux system today to solve the problem ....

Thank you
Knut
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On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Knut Krueger <rh at knut-krueger.de> wrote:
FYI,

R CMD build ...

works just fine on Windows (and I'm sure R cmd build ... won't).

/Henrik
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On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
That is correct but if one were using the batchfiles I mentioned then both work.

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Am 21.04.2013 04:14, schrieb Henrik Bengtsson:
Yes it works, unfortunately windows user need not consider capitals or not.
When sitting on a Windows PC I usually typing lower cas only on Linux I 
am aware of lower or capital letter. The R doesnt matter (because its 
windows) if it is capital or not but the rest is.


R cmd -> Argument cmd ignored
after wards you are in the r-console  and if you do not recognize this:
     r cmd -> unexpected symbol in "r cmd"

  I tried now three times in the last couple of years to build a 
package. last week I had time to figure out what was wrong. Maybe it 
would be helpful to write this in the manuals f.e PkgUtils (but at least 
in http://win-builder.r-project.org/ ) that Windows user either must use 
capitals (but not  build and check otherwies the error message is also 
not constructive) or they must use rcmd.exe with lower letters for build 
an check . I think this could help others not to waste time.

Knut
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Am 21.04.2013 04:59, schrieb Gabor Grothendieck:
Batch files? I can find only  xls2csv.bat  and  RunSnowWorker.bat in the 
3.0 directories.

Knut