Am 24.02.2013 23:50, schrieb Gabor Grothendieck:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ulrike Grömping
<groemp...@bht-berlin.de> wrote:
Dear helpeRs,
on my Windows 7 laptop, I have problems getting R CMD check to work. I
believe it did work completely before, but I am not sure.
Yesterday it almost worked, except for the tests: These were aborted because
of a complaint that the temporary directory wasn't available. I played with
windows environment variables for the temporary directory, but that didn't
solve it. Apparently I did something that made things worse:
Today, R CMD check completely refuses to work, with the error message "Fatal
error: creation of tmpfile failed -- set TMPDIR suitably?" This is the same
for current R and R-devel. Changes to the TEMP or TMP environment variable
don't influence this behavior.
The path:
C:\Rtools;C:\Program Files\Dell\DW WLAN Card;C:\Program
Files\R\R-2.15.2\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files\Intel\OpenCL SDK\2.0\bin\x86;C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth
Software\;C:\Program Files\Calibre2\;C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
2.9\miktex\bin\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin
Any ideas what I can do to fix this?
Perhaps also relevant: I run R CMD check from a DOS window that is opened
with administrator rights.
1. Remove the paths to Rtools and to R in PATH since they don't look correct.
2. Enter this from the Windows cmd line:
SET U
SET T
and it should show that TMP is set to %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp
and that TEMP is set to the same thing and TMPDIR is not listed.
If not change them so that it so reads.
3. Once you have done all the above then place this file anywhere on your path
https://batchfiles.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/R.bat
The following will find R using the registry or if its not there it
will look in the usual places and then run it so you can then try:
R.bat CMD ...whatever...
If that still does not work proceed to the following manual alternative:
4. If the above did not fix the problem download this file
https://batchfiles.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Rpathset.bat
5. edit the SET statements in it and then place it on your Windows path.
6. Now run it from the cmd line:
Rpathset.bat
and for the rest of that cmd line session your path should be set up correctly.
Also you might want to read:
https://batchfiles.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/batchfiles.md
There is also a new discussion group just set up at
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/sqldf
that is also being used for the batchfiles.
Thanks, I followed your advice, and the check ran from the R.bat; also,
the R Gui was usable again. After re-adding the paths to Rtools and R
manually (I think they were correct anyway), I am back to the sunday
state: R Gui runs fine, the check is run, except for the tests where the
complaint is:
cannot open file
'c:\Users\GROEMP~1\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp8kETwo\file15d8714c5215':
Permission denied
(Of course, the proper path is with groemping instead of GROEMP~1; the
abbreviation is done automatically by R CMD check or Windows.)
From the Dos box, I can cd to that directory (both long name and
abbreviated name), and there is a 0 byte file of the name in the
complaint. From the Windows 7 Explorer, I don't know how to change to
that directory, except for a search for the file name. Once I have found
the file name, I can edit and change the file without being stopped from
doing so, thus this does not seem to be an issue of write permissions.
Any idea how to fix this, without a re-installation (that might not fix
it either, if I am unlucky)?
And, by the way, do others agree with Jeff's advice (thanks, Jeff!) that
it is preferrable not to install and run R with administrator rights?
Best, Ulrike
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