Re: [Rd] Error in R CMD INSTALL on Windows XP using Rtools28

2008-12-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Any Windows batch script that uses the Windows find command. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:08 PM, cstrato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Gabor, > > Sorry, my mistake, here are my correct path settings: > > System Path: > C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Programme\MiKTeX > 2.7\

Re: [Rd] Error in R CMD INSTALL on Windows XP using Rtools28

2008-12-06 Thread cstrato
Dear Gabor, Sorry, my mistake, here are my correct path settings: System Path: C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem User PATH: C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;

Re: [Rd] Warning: missing text for item ... in \describe?

2008-12-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
1) Having run tests on CRAN and BioC overnight, the results are quite depressing. There are 112 packages on CRAN and a score on BioC with incorrectly rendered help pages because of spaces after \item{foo}. In two cases (fields and MANOR) the text skipped is invalid, so it is not simply a case

Re: [Rd] Error in R CMD INSTALL on Windows XP using Rtools28

2008-12-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
You could leave your path at: %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;c:\Programme\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\ and then use Rcmd.bat or rtools.bat to add the rest. Also there are still two problems: 1. one of the dangers of your setup is that Rtools has a conflict

Re: [Rd] R 2.8.1 ?

2008-12-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The current plan is for 2.8.1 on Dec 22nd: I don't think that is final as yet but will need to become so shortly. On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Duncan's 'R changes' feed at http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel showed a steady flow of bugfixes and patches

Re: [Rd] Error in R CMD INSTALL on Windows XP using Rtools28

2008-12-06 Thread cstrato
Dear Duncan, dear Gabor, Thank you for this additional information and all these great tips. Setting the system path in the following way solved my problem: c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\perl\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;c:\Programme\Microsoft

[Rd] R 2.8.1 ?

2008-12-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Duncan's 'R changes' feed at http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel showed a steady flow of bugfixes and patches in 2.8.0 yet http://developer.r-project.org/ is silent on the topic. Is there any expectation of a point release before 2.9.0 rolls around in April?

Re: [Rd] Error in R CMD INSTALL on Windows XP using Rtools28

2008-12-06 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cstrato wrote: >> >> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> >>> >>> On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, cstrato wrote: >>> >>> Dear Duncan Thank you for this explicit explanation, you are right: When setting the system v

Re: [Rd] Error in R CMD INSTALL on Windows XP using Rtools28

2008-12-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
cstrato wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, cstrato wrote: Dear Duncan Thank you for this explicit explanation, you are right: When setting the system variable "Path" (as administrator) in addition to setting the user variable "PATH" (as user), now everything works