[Rd] Package portability issues

2007-08-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
We have some new Solaris boxes (both Sparc and amd64), and as they are not yet in production use I borrowed some time on them to run tests over CRAN packages, using the Solaris make and Sun Studio compilers. The results were quite depressing. Sun Studio 12 compilers are also available for Lin

[Rd] rm error on Windows after R CMD INSTALL

2007-08-02 Thread James W. MacDonald
Hi, I seem to have buggered my windows box in such a way that R CMD INSTALL no longer works, and I can't figure out what is wrong (and Google doesn't seem to be my friend either...). When installing a package (doesn't matter what package), I get the following error. installing to 'c:/R-2.5.1