I'm mortified to report that the location I set in TMPDIR was not a valid directory in the system I was using (I copied it from another system), so this is a mea culpa on my part!
Andrew On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Andrew Yee wrote: > >> I noticed that if I specify the location of TMPDIR in .bashrc as follows on >> a Linux 64 bit system: >> >> export TMPDIR=/store/home/ayee/.tmp >> >> I get the following error message when installing R > > 'installing' or making? Looks like the latter. > >> >> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ayee/R-patched/src/library/base' >> building package 'base' >> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/ayee/R-patched/src/library/base' >> /bin/sh: line 8: /store/home/ayee/.tmp/R24402: No such file or directory >> mv: cannot stat `/store/home/ayee/.tmp/R24402': No such file or directory >> make[4]: *** [mkR] Error 1 >> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ayee/R-patched/src/library/base' >> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 >> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ayee/R-patched/src/library/base' >> make[2]: *** [R] Error 1 >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ayee/R-patched/src/library' >> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ayee/R-patched/src' >> make: *** [R] Error 1 >> [rambo:~/R-patched]$ >> >> However, when I don't specify TMPDIR, it installs fine. Any >> suggestions/comments? > > Check if /store/home/ayee/.tmp exists and is writeable. I get that message > only if it does not. From the manual > > Ensure that the environment variable TMPDIR is either unset (and /tmp > exists and can be written in and scripts can be executed from) or > points to a valid temporary directory (one from which execution of > scripts is allowed). > >> >> Thanks, >> Andrew >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > Please do as we ask and not send HTML. > >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > -- > 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 ______________________________________________ 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.
