Hi, I believe I've encountered a bug in the do_install function in the
script used by R CMD INSTALL. I'm using R 2.8.0 under OS X 10.5.5. I was
trying to install a package from source (the package gaga which I maintain,
which I checked and builds correctly for R 2.8.0) when I get the error
message
* Installing to library '/Users/drossell/Desktop/R-2.8.0/library'
/Users/drossell/Desktop/R-2.8.0/bin/INSTALL: line 950: cd:
/Volumes/biostats/projects/routines/R/gaga
/Volumes/biostats/projects/routines/R/gaga: No such file or directory
sed: DESCRIPTION: No such file or directory
ERROR: no 'Package' field in 'DESCRIPTION'
I get this same error for any other package that I try to install.
Upon debugging the script, I've found that the script is trying to cd to
"/Volumes/biostats/projects/routines/R/gaga\n/Volumes/biostats/projects/routines/R/gaga".
That is, the directory is repeated twice, which causes the installation to
fail. To temporarily fix the bug I commented out the 1st two lines in the
do_install function and manually specified the directory. After doing this
the package installs just fine.
# cd "${1}"
# pkg_dir="${1}"
cd "/Volumes/biostats/projects/routines/R/gaga" #line added
pkg_dir="/Volumes/biostats/projects/routines/R/gaga" #line added
Thanks,
David
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