I will repost on R-devel. -- Bert
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote: > On 17/07/2012 18:20, Bert Gunter wrote: > >> Folks: >> >> sessionInfo() >> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) >> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 >> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 >> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 >> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C >> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] datasets splines grid tcltk stats graphics >> grDevices >> [8] utils methods base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] svSocket_0.9-51 lattice_0.19-26 MASS_7.3-17 >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] cluster_1.14.2 Hmisc_3.9-3 R2HTML_2.2 svMisc_0.9-65 >> TinnR_1.0-5 >> [6] tools_2.15.0 >> >> >> According to section 1.3 of the WRITING R EXTENSIONS manual, both R CMD >> build and R CMD check run R with the '--vanilla' option so no user startup >> files are read. >> >> However, >> >> 1. If I have an Rprofile.site in my etc startup directory, if I am in the >> ...\top directory and try to check or build the top\mypackage source >> package, I can only do so by giving (in the Windows shell, of course) the >> full path name to R CMD build/check, e.g. >> R CMD build pathtoTop\top\mypackage . >> >> R CMD build mypackage >> >> yields the error: ERROR cannot change to directory 'test' >> >> >> 2. However, if I remove (e.g. change the name) of Rprofile.site, then >> >> R CMD build/check mypackage >> >> works fine. Note that my Rprofile.site file DOES contain a setwd() >> statement to some other directory; if I comment out this statement, then I >> also do not need to use the full path name even with the Rprofile.site >> file >> there. >> > > Well "don't do that"! > > So my question is: Is the documentation wrong? -- Is there an >> environmental >> or option I need to set/change? -- Is this a Windows "feature" subtlety? >> > > Most likely. Do you have multiple architectures installed? If so, try > --no-multiarch. > > But this really is an R-devel question. > > Many thanks. >> >> -- Bert >> >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~**ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/> > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > > -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
