On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:
> This is a bug in the package: you are required to quote paths in > Makefiles, e.g. to allow for spaces in the path. > > And let's knock the issue of forward and backwards slashes on the head: > they are equivalent on Windows. Despite your perjorative comments, the > supplied value of R_HOME is valid. > > > Thanks, this did the trick. Dan > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: > > Hello, >> >> I have come across two separate packages that have a Makefile in inst/doc >> which use the R_HOME variable. >> >> In both cases, the path to R_HOME gets munged in such a way that commands >> that include R_HOME fail on Windows: >> >> For example, one Makefile, for the xmapcore package ( >> >> https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/xmapcore/username/password >> : >> readonly) has this: >> >> R=${R_HOME}/bin/R >> SUITE=../cookbook/delia.R >> [...] >> ${R} --vanilla --verbose < ${SUITE} >> >> the output of trying to build this package includes: >> >> * creating vignettes ... ERROR >> E:\biocbld\BBS-2~1.8-B\R/bin/R --vanilla --verbose < ../cookbook/delia.R >> E:biocbldBBS-2~1.8-BR/bin/R: not found >> make: *** [pdf] Error 127 >> Error in tools::buildVignettes(dir = ".") : running 'make' failed >> Execution halted >> >> It seems R_HOME is not getting resolved to a valid path. That's strange >> because R CMD echo shows the right thing: >> >> E:\sandbox>\biocbld\bbs-2.8-bioc\R\bin\R CMD echo %R_HOME% >> e:/biocbld/bbs-2.8-bioc/R >> >> That's a nice path with all forward slashes and no funny 8.3 paths with >> tildes. But it looks like when R_HOME is invoked in a Makefile, the >> resulting path has a mix of forward and backslashes, and gets translated >> into 8.3 style, and the resulting path is not valid for finding R >> executables. >> >> Note that R_HOME is defined within R; I don't also have it defined at the >> shell level: >> >> E:\sandbox>echo %R_HOME% >> %R_HOME% >> >> Any ideas? >> Thanks, >> Dan >> >> sessionInfo() >>> >> R version 2.13.0 alpha (2011-03-18 r54865) >> 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] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
