Duncan Murdoch wrote: > 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, Edna, if Edna has the right permissions, then perhaps TMPDIR=c:\temp has been typed rather than set TMPDIR=c:/temp which will fix it. Uwe > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.