trouble using R CMD

Jan, thanks.  I have found the problem.

The first line of /usr/local/lib/R/bin/Rdindex says

#! /usr/local/bin/perl

But my perl is installed in /usr/bin, not /usr/local/bin.  I guess that 
was Apple's choice; if it was mine, I don't remember making it.

After changing that first line to

#! /usr/bin/perl

all works fine I think.

Best wishes -- David

That looks good. What happens if you just say

R CMD Rdindex

Also, there is a more up-to-date distribution at

http;//gifi.stat.ucla.edu/R/builds

--- Jan

On Monday, October 1, 2001, at 09:47 , David Firth wrote:

Jan, many thanks for your reply.

No, I didn't compile it myself, but downloaded your "full" package 
from CRAN about a week ago and used that.

I put in the echo as you suggested, in Rcmd after the line
PATH="${R_HOME}/bin:${PATH}"

and the path as reported by

echo $PATH

at that point is

/usr/local/lib/R/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/Users/david/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/
bin:/
bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin

I also checked that R_HOME/bin/Rdindex is executable by all.  Which 
it is.

Dues that PATH look wrong to you?

Thanks again -- David

David

Did you compile your own ? We do not have this problem on our 
machines (I
dont think it has anything to do with PERLLIB or PERL5LIB).  
Something seems
to be wrong with the PATH set in Rcmd. Put an echo in there and see 
what
happens. Also, is Rdindex set chmod +x ?

--- Jan

On Monday, October 1, 2001, at 07:56 , David Firth wrote:

-- I have recently begun using R 1.3.1 in Darwin/X11.  The Darwin I 
have is that which came with Mac OS 10.0.4.

My first experience with trying to use R CMD has not been a 
success. I am trying to index a package from its documentation, in 
the standard way:

[Localhost:lib/R/bin] david% echo $R_HOME
/usr/local/lib/R
[localhost:lib/R/bin] david% echo $PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/Users/david/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/
sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
[localhost:lib/R/bin] david% echo $PERL5LIB
/sw/lib/perl5
[localhost:lib/R/bin] david% echo $PERLLIB
PERLLIB: Undefined variable.
[localhost:lib/R/bin] david% which R
/usr/local/bin/R
[localhost:lib/R/bin] david% which perl
/usr/bin/perl
[localhost:lib/R/bin] david% R CMD Rdindex ~/relimp/man/*.Rd > INDEX
/usr/local/lib/R/bin/Rcmd: command not found: Rdindex [37]
[localhost:lib/R/bin] david% pwd
/usr/local/lib/R/bin
[localhost:lib/R/bin] david% ls
BATCH      LINK       Rcmd       Rdconv     SHLIB      help
COMPILE    R          Rcmd~      Rdiff      Sd2Rd      libR.dylib
INDEX      R.bin      Rd2dvi     Rdindex    build      libtool
INSTALL    REMOVE     Rd2txt     Rprof      check      pager

R CMD appears to be unable to find "Rdindex".  Can anyone suggest 
what might be wrong?

I have various other packages installed using fink (and the fact 
that PERL5LIB is set to /sw/lib/perl5 is a symptom of that). Could 
that be the cause?

Thanks,
David

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