Hello. I have successfully built R on windows scores of times, and have never come across this problem. For this build, I am using the current 4.6.3 prerelease version of Rtools, Windows7 64 bit, and R-devel_2015-09-14.tar.gz
When running make check, I get the following error: running code in 'reg-packages.R' ...make[3]: *** [reg-packages.Rout] Error 1 make[2]: *** [test-Reg] Error 2 make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1 make: *** [check] Error 2 Looking at reg-packages.Rout.fail shows: > > ## else w/o clause: > ## could use file.copy(recursive = TRUE) > system(paste('cp -R', shQuote(pkgSrcPath), shQuote(tempdir()))) > pkgPath <- file.path(tempdir(), "Pkgs") > ## pkgB tests an empty R directory > dir.create(file.path(pkgPath, "pkgB", "R"), recursive = TRUE, + showWarnings = FALSE) > p.lis <- if("Matrix" %in% row.names(installed.packages(.Library))) + c("pkgA", "pkgB", "exNSS4") else "exNSS4" > for(p. in p.lis) { + cat("building package", p., "...\n") + r <- build.pkg(file.path(pkgPath, p.)) + cat("installing package", p., "using file", r, "...\n") + ## we could install the tar file ... (see build.pkg()'s definition) + install.packages(r, lib = "myLib", repos=NULL, type = "source") + stopifnot(require(p.,lib = "myLib", character.only=TRUE)) + detach(pos = match(p., sub("^package:","", search()))) + } building package pkgA ... Error: dir.exists(dir) is not TRUE Execution halted This error does NOT occur when building R-patched_2015-09-13, so it must be something in R-devel. A similar question was asked previously in 2012, once on r-help [1] and once here [2], but did not receive any answer. Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Avi [1] <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help//2012-October/337237.html> [2] <https://mailman.stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel//2012-October/065002.html> ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel