Nothing has changed here for three months, AFAICS. However, I noticed you have installed R into a directory with a space in the path, despite the advice not to. OTOH, I have just tested installing where you did, and was able to install R.oo:
[c:/Program Files/R/R-2.5.0alpha/bin]% ./Rcmd INSTALL d:/R/packages/contrib/R.oo_1.2.3.tar.gz installing to 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-25~1.0AL/library' ... On Windows, INSTALL is a Perl script. Please debug it to see what is going wrong on your setup (it is working for many others). You can of course specify -l to workaround this. On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > Hi, > > I've just downloaded the latest R v2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043) for That is not the latest binary build I am offered, let alone the latest sources. > WinXP. When I try to > install a package R tries to install it to a no-name (empty name) > directory (causing error downstream): > > RCMD INSTALL R.oo > installing to '' > > FYI: Package install perfectly on R v2.4.1 patched, and did so also on > earlier R v2.5.0 devel/alpha(?) versions. > > Current directory is: > C:\tmp > > with subdirectory R.oo/ containing inst/ man/ R/ DESCRIPTION as usual. > > I noticed the following in CHANGES and NEWS related to R CMD INSTALL: > > o R CMD INSTALL now installs by default into the first library on > the library path if R was run in the current environment. > Similarly, R CMD REMOVE by default removes from that library. > R CMD INSTALL does a better job of removing its temporary > directory. > > o R CMD INSTALL and R CMD REMOVE now use as the default library > (if -l is not specified) the first library that would be used > if R were run in the current environment (and they run R to > find it). > > o R CMD INSTALL now prepends the installation directory (if > specified) to the library search path. > > But my I do have: > >> .libPaths() > [1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.5.0alpha/library" > > My setup: > echo %RHOME%: > C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-2.5.0alpha >> .libPaths() > [1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.5.0alpha/library" >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.5.0 alpha (2007-04-04 r41043) > i386-pc-mingw32 > locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252;LC_MON > ETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United > States.1252 > attached base packages: > [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "methods" > [7] "base" > > > Any help appreciated > > Henrik > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
