once again me --- just some more precise information... [snip] >>> (1) TMPDIR on a different drive: >>> --- not sure whether this was my fault or you could do anything >>> about it: On my system, I have a separate drive for temp (i.e. E:), >>> and had this set in a corresponding TMPDIR environment variable. >>> During the build process of R, I had difficulties with this, >>> which were only resolved when I created a tmp folder on the same >>> drive (i.e. C:) and set environment variable TMPDIR to this new >>> folder. Is this a known issue /can you reproduce this? >>> If this is a more general issue, you might want to mention this >>> in R-admin / or the documentation to Rtools. >> >> If your setup is correct according to the manuals, it may be a >> problem in one of the cygwin tools. A more detailed description >> to analyse it would be appreciated. >> > Yes, I guess, it was a cygwin problem; it claimed it could not access > /tmp at one instance; so I concluded that environment variable TMPDIR > was not set and hence set it to E:\ in the console and re-ran "make all" > but got the same error message; when I changed this environment variable > to C:\<somedir>\tmp however it ran through well.
Argh: A closer look gave that the reason for this must have been that I had not set it to E:\ but rather to E:\tmp which in return did not exist, so no wonder for the error --- blame on me! With E:\ it now worked fine. It is noteworthy, though, to repeat Win-FAQ 2.24: For a successful build under Windows 7 (probably just as under Vista), you have to a) be logged in as a user contained in the local Administrators group and b) explicitely give full control to this user for the installation folder and all its subfolders; having these privileges for group "Administrator" does not suffice.... Best, Peter ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
