This problem could be caused by having CDPATH set. E.g., % env CDPATH=. ~/R-svn/r-devel/R/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l Rlib testCMacros /homes/bill/packages/Rlib /homes/bill/R-svn/r-devel/R/bin/INSTALL: line 948: cd: /homes/bill/packages/testCMacros /a/seafiler01.na.tibco.com/vol/vol2/users/bill/packages/testCMacros: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read DESCRIPTION: No such file or directory ERROR: no 'Package' field in 'DESCRIPTION' /bin/sed: read error on /homes/bill/packages/testCMacros: Is a directory (It works fine if I set 'CDPATH='.)
The happens because, from 'man cd' in http://www.linuxhowtos.org/manpages/1p/cd.htm: If a non-empty directory name from CDPATH is used, or if cd - is used, an absolute pathname of the new working directory shall be written to the standard output as follows: "%s\n", <new directory> Otherwise, there shall be no output. and INSTALL uses the idiom `cd ${dir} && /bin/pwd` to convert the directory name dir to a full path. libtools explicitly unsets CDPATH, presumably to avoid this sort of problem. All the R scripts should do so. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software Inc - Spotfire Division wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of David Rossell > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 2:05 AM > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: [Rd] bug in R CMD INSTALL do_install under OS X > > Hi, I believe I've encountered a bug in the do_install function in the > script used by R CMD INSTALL. I'm using R 2.8.0 under OS X > 10.5.5. I was > trying to install a package from source (the package gaga > which I maintain, > which I checked and builds correctly for R 2.8.0) when I get the error > message > > * Installing to library '/Users/drossell/Desktop/R-2.8.0/library' > /Users/drossell/Desktop/R-2.8.0/bin/INSTALL: line 950: cd: > /Volumes/biostats/projects/routines/R/gaga > /Volumes/biostats/projects/routines/R/gaga: No such file or directory > sed: DESCRIPTION: No such file or directory > ERROR: no 'Package' field in 'DESCRIPTION' > > I get this same error for any other package that I try to install. > > Upon debugging the script, I've found that the script is > trying to cd to > "/Volumes/biostats/projects/routines/R/gaga\n/Volumes/biostats /projects/routines/R/gaga". > That is, the directory is repeated twice, which causes the > installation to > fail. To temporarily fix the bug I commented out the 1st two > lines in the > do_install function and manually specified the directory. > After doing this > the package installs just fine. > > # cd "${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 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
