Uwe, It think the problem turned out to be with my "profile.site" file.
As I recall, temporarily deleting / renaming it was the simple fix. I think it had to do with something I use to parse the commandArgs Thank you for your reply, and sorry for not responding sooner. I didn't think anyone responded! Gene 2011/4/20 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> > Not sure what you are really doing, but > > R --vanilla CMD INSTALL something > > runs in a vanilla style. I just tested with a local .Rprofile under with > R-2.13.0 under Windows. > Perhaps it is specific to the package your are talking about? Perhaps you > can make it available for further inspection of this problem? > > Uwe Ligges > > > > > > On 19.04.2011 01:55, Gene Leynes wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I was having trouble passing in command line options when doing an package >> install earlier. >> >> From An Introduction in R >>> >> >> In addition, you can use25< >>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#fn-25>options >>> >>> --arch=, --no-environ, --no-init-file, --no-site-file and >>> --vanillabetween >>> R and CMD: these affect any R processes run by the tools. (Here >>> --vanillais equivalent to --no-environ >>> >>> --no-site-file --no-init-file.) >>> >>> R CMD cmd arg >> >> >> When I tried doing this, two unexpected things happened: >> >> 1. --vanilla doesn't have an effect when used with R CMD (R --vanilla >> >> CMD INSTALL rj_0.5.2-1.tar.gz) >> 2. When loading my functions from "Rprofile.site" that seems to >> interfere >> >> with the INSTALL command. I temporarily deleted the Rprofile.site >> contents, >> and the install worked as expected. Maybe it's because I'm also >> parsing the >> arguments after the --args flag? >> >> The second item is probably "user error" on my part. >> The first item seems like a possible R bug, but I'm not ruling out "user >> error". See "?user.error" for a sample error message >> >> >> I finally got the package installed, but wanted to report this if it >> really >> is a bug. >> >> >> >> The lines below come from a DOS prompt: >> >> c:\Users\gene.leynes\Downloads>dir /B >> gdata_2.8.1.zip >> rj_0.5.2-1.tar.gz >> c:\Users\gene.leynes\Downloads>R --vanilla >> >> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) >> Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing >> ISBN 3-900051-07-0 >> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) >> >> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. >> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. >> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. >> >> Natural language support but running in an English locale >> >> R is a collaborative project with many contributors. >> Type 'contributors()' for more information and >> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. >> >> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or >> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. >> Type 'q()' to quit R. >> >> R.Version() >>> >> $platform >> [1] "i386-pc-mingw32" >> >> $arch >> [1] "i386" >> >> $os >> [1] "mingw32" >> >> $system >> [1] "i386, mingw32" >> >> $status >> [1] "" >> >> $major >> [1] "2" >> >> $minor >> [1] "13.0" >> >> $year >> [1] "2011" >> >> $month >> [1] "04" >> >> $day >> [1] "13" >> >> $`svn rev` >> [1] "55427" >> >> $language >> [1] "R" >> >> $version.string >> [1] "R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)" >> >> q() >>> >> >> c:\Users\gene.leynes\Downloads>R --vanilla CMD INSTALL rj_0.5.2-1.tar.gz >> Function_II.R : >> Function_IM.R : >> Function_NAsummary.R : >> Function_YahooAdjCloseAsZoo.R : >> Function_addbg.R : >> Function_bgfun.R : >> Function_boxplot2.R : >> Function_clipdir.R : >> Function_clipper.R : >> Function_clipstar.R : >> Function_comma.R : >> Function_count.na.R : >> Function_dftab.R : >> Function_enclose.R : >> Function_eye.R : >> Function_factors.R : >> Function_finder.R : >> Function_headstr.R : >> Function_inin.R : >> Function_lll.R : >> Function_loader.R : >> Function_ma.R : >> Function_makebm.R : >> Function_makegm.R : >> Function_makegroups.R : >> Function_plot100colors.R : >> Function_plotRunningSd.R : >> Function_saver.R : >> Function_sourcedir.R : >> Function_stacker.R : >> Function_subzoo.R : >> Function_svr.R : >> Function_tictoc.R : >> Function_writexls.R : >> Function_wtt_3.0.R : >> heatplot.R : >> loadfuns.R : >> Opening: nextArgrj_0.5.2-1.tar.gz >> Warning in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) : >> cannot open file 'nextArgrj_0.5.2-1.tar.gz': No such file or directory >> Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) : >> cannot open the connection >> Calls: source -> file >> Execution halted >> >> c:\Users\gene.leynes\Downloads> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
