On 01/10/2007 11:45 PM, Edna Bell wrote: > Hi again. > > I'm sure that this is really simple. > > I'm trying to build a package on a Windows Vista machine. I use > Rcmd build --binary test > > but I get the "Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory" > > I tried TMPDIR=c:\temp > but to no avail.
I suspect you don't have write permission on c:\temp. Windows systems typically have TEMP set to a writeable directory, and recent builds of R 2.6.0 will use that directory; in older versions you should be able to manually set TMPDIR to the same directory. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.