On 7/8/2009 3:39 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
I understand what you wrote. Its just that I don't agree that that
is a reasonable solution.
What is wanted is something that works safely out of the box,
not something with a built in danger that every single person
that uses it must fix (and know about it to fix) in order to
maintain the integrity of their system.
As far as I know, you are the only person in the whole world who has
been affected by this. But fixing it would inconvenience hundreds of
people, who would have to install a new version of Rtools, if the make
system suddenly started looking for find2 instead of find.
So it's unfortunate that Microsoft chose to use the name of the wrong
Unix utility when they wrote find, and it's unfortunate that the first
version of Rtools didn't fix this, but there you are: name clashes
happen, and sometimes you need to work around them.
Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Duncan Murdoch<murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
On 7/8/2009 3:18 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
To my mind its pretty serious that Rtools can make other
software not work and the importance of using the word
find in the tools is close to zero. Most people never even
look at the scripts.
You didn't read what I wrote. It could be called anything as far as the
scripts are concerned. I explained to you how to rename it and keep them
happy.
Duncan Murdoch
Why don't you just rename find.exe to find2.exe, say, in
Rtools and adjust the other files accordingly. For the small
number of people who ever look at the scripts it will be obvious
that we are dealing with a find variant and the danger and need
for kludges is eliminated.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch<murd...@stats.uwo.ca>
wrote:
On 08/07/2009 12:04 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
Its safer just to temporarily add it to your path.
Unfortunately Rtools has a find command that conflicts with
the find command in Windows so if you add the Rtools
bin directory to your path permanently then you could
find other programs stop working. That actually happened
to me once and it took the longest time until I discovered
that Rtools was the culprit.
That's true, but there is a workaround: you can manually rename the
find.exe
in Rtools, and adjust the entry in one of the R makefiles (MkRules), and
it
will use the new name instead of "find". The reason you might not want
to
do this is you might expect find to act the way it does on Unix: the
Rtools
basically try to make Windows look a little bit like Unix.
Duncan Murdoch
If you follow the advice I gave you normally won't have
that problem.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Duncan Murdoch<murd...@stats.uwo.ca>
wrote:
On 08/07/2009 10:13 AM, Farrel Buchinsky wrote:
Forgive my naivte, but how do I make windows find tar. In other words
from
where do I issue the command and what is the command.
You need to install the toolset, and let the installer set your path.
Duncan Murdoch
Farrel Buchinsky
Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:09, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca>
wrote:
On 08/07/2009 10:02 AM, Farrel Buchinsky wrote:
I have previously read "R Installation and Administration". I read
it
again. It does not help me
The relevant paragraph is below. But I need lower level
instructions.
Where
can I find them.
Follow the link. If Windows can't find tar, your toolset is
installed
incorrectly.
Duncan Murdoch
R CMD INSTALL works in Windows to install source packages if you
have
the
source-code package files (option “Source Package Installation
Files”
in
the
installer) and toolset (see The Windows
toolset<file:///C:/Program%20Files/R/R-2.9.1/doc/manual/R-admin.html#The-Windows-toolset>)
installed. Installation of binary packages must be done by
install.packages
. R CMD INSTALL --help will tell you the current options under
Windows
(which differ from those on a Unix-alike): in particular there is a
choice
of the types of documentation to be installed.
Farrel Buchinsky
Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870
2009/6/19 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
See the manual "R Installation and Administration" for information
on
how
to install source packages on Windows.
Uwe Ligges
Farrel Buchinsky wrote:
After issuing tar xvfz RgoogleDocs_0.2.2-src.tar.gzI am getting an
error
message
'tar' is not recongnized as an internal or external command,
operable
program or batch file.
Should I use my 7-zip to open up the archive?
Where should I be doing this? For instance can I do it all in my
download directory or should I do it in C:\Program
Files\R\R-2.9.0\library or should I manually create C:\Program
Files\R\R-2.9.0\library\RGoogleDocs and do it all there or will
the
Rcmd
INSTALL RGoogleDocs_0.2-2.tar.gz command do that for me.
Yes, you assumed correctly. I am using Windows XP.
Farrel Buchinsky
Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 20:17, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendi...@gmail.com>wrote:
I have haven't neen following this thread but:
1. if RGoogleDocs_0.2-2.tar.gz is a source distribution (as
opposed to built source) then the first line renames it so
that its not the same name as the built file about to be created.
The second line detars it into the RGoogleDocs directory. The
third
builds
the built source file, RGoogleDocs_0.2-2.tar.gz. The fourth
installs the built source file into R. I've assumed Windows.
If you are on Linux replace rename with mv.
rename RGoogleDocs_0.2-2.tar.gz RgoogleDocs_0.2.2-src.tar.gz
tar xvfz RgoogleDocs_0.2.2-src.tar.gz
Rcmd build RGoogleDocs
Rcmd INSTALL RGoogleDocs_0.2-2.tar.gz
or
2. if RGoogleDocs_0.2-2.tar.gz is already a built source file
then
you
can just issue the last of the above lines and don't need
the others.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Farrel
Buchinsky<fjb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
What do you mean by "cd the.directory.containing.RGoogleDocs"
Do you mean the directory where I downloaded the
RGoogleDocs_0.2-2.tar.gz
to? Or do you mean that I must create a directory called
RGoogleDocs
under
Library and then change to that directory?
Farrel Buchinsky
Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 22:16, Gabor Grothendieck <
ggrothendi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Finally enter into the Windows console:
cd the.directory.containing.RGoogleDocs
Rcmd build RGoogleDocs
Rcmd INSTALL RGoogleDocs_1.0.0.tar.gz
except replace RGoogleDocs_1.0.0.tar.gz with the filename
created by the build.
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