On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > Hi. > > On 4/7/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nothing has changed here for three months, AFAICS. However, I noticed you >> have installed R into a directory with a space in the path, despite the >> advice not to. OTOH, I have just tested installing where you did, and >> was able to install R.oo: >> >> [c:/Program Files/R/R-2.5.0alpha/bin]% ./Rcmd INSTALL >> d:/R/packages/contrib/R.oo_1.2.3.tar.gz >> installing to 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-25~1.0AL/library' >> ... > > Thank you for this confirmation. It is odd though, because so have > also I done successfully for years. > >> >> On Windows, INSTALL is a Perl script. Please debug it to see what is >> going wrong on your setup (it is working for many others). > > I will debug INSTALL to see what might go wrong. I'll see if I can > locate an earlier version of R 2.5.0 alpha to see if the error really > is there or not. > >> >> You can of course specify -l to workaround this. >> >> On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I've just downloaded the latest R v2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043) for >> >> That is not the latest binary build I am offered, let alone the latest >> sources. > > Got it from the UC Davis CRAN mirror about an one hour before my message.
There is not much point in getting alpha/betas from mirrors: they can introduce another 24-hour delay. > > Thanks > > Henrik > >> >> > WinXP. When I try to >> > install a package R tries to install it to a no-name (empty name) >> > directory (causing error downstream): >> > >> > RCMD INSTALL R.oo >> > installing to '' >> > >> > FYI: Package install perfectly on R v2.4.1 patched, and did so also on >> > earlier R v2.5.0 devel/alpha(?) versions. >> > >> > Current directory is: >> > C:\tmp >> > >> > with subdirectory R.oo/ containing inst/ man/ R/ DESCRIPTION as usual. >> > >> > I noticed the following in CHANGES and NEWS related to R CMD INSTALL: >> > >> > o R CMD INSTALL now installs by default into the first library on >> > the library path if R was run in the current environment. >> > Similarly, R CMD REMOVE by default removes from that library. >> > R CMD INSTALL does a better job of removing its temporary >> > directory. >> > >> > o R CMD INSTALL and R CMD REMOVE now use as the default library >> > (if -l is not specified) the first library that would be used >> > if R were run in the current environment (and they run R to >> > find it). >> > >> > o R CMD INSTALL now prepends the installation directory (if >> > specified) to the library search path. >> > >> > But my I do have: >> > >> >> .libPaths() >> > [1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.5.0alpha/library" >> > >> > My setup: >> > echo %RHOME%: >> > C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-2.5.0alpha >> >> .libPaths() >> > [1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.5.0alpha/library" >> >> sessionInfo() >> > R version 2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043) >> > i386-pc-mingw32 >> > locale: >> > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United >> States.1252;LC_MON >> > ETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United >> States.1252 >> > attached base packages: >> > [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "methods" >> > [7] "base" >> > >> > >> > Any help appreciated >> > >> > Henrik >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >> > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
