[Rd] Building R on Windows: mkdir of Rtools creates directories with read-only permissions [WEIRD]

2014-12-15 Thread C
With reference to the issue first reported by Henrik Bengtsson (see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2014-January/068184.html), I would like to report that I am experiencing the very same problem when building R 3.1.2 on Windows platform. Fortunately, the same workaround devised by Henrik wor

Re: [Rd] Building R on Windows: mkdir of Rtools creates directories with read-only permissions [WEIRD]

2014-07-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 30 juin 2014 à 15:32 -0400, Duncan Murdoch a écrit : > On 30/06/2014 2:41 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > > Le lundi 30 juin 2014 à 05:23 -0400, Duncan Murdoch a écrit : > > > On 30/06/2014, 4:44 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > > > > On Thu Jan 9 2014 03:47 Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > > >

Re: [Rd] Building R on Windows: mkdir of Rtools creates directories with read-only permissions [WEIRD]

2014-06-30 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 30 juin 2014 à 05:23 -0400, Duncan Murdoch a écrit : > On 30/06/2014, 4:44 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > > On Thu Jan 9 2014 03:47 Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > >> This is is an issue that bugged me for a while. I encountered a year > >> ago (April 2012) when I first tried to build R from

Re: [Rd] Building R on Windows: mkdir of Rtools creates directories with read-only permissions [WEIRD]

2014-06-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 30/06/2014, 4:44 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > On Thu Jan 9 2014 03:47 Henrik Bengtsson wrote: >> This is is an issue that bugged me for a while. I encountered a year >> ago (April 2012) when I first tried to build R from source on Windows. >> I never figured out what the solution is or if

Re: [Rd] Building R on Windows: mkdir of Rtools creates directories with read-only permissions [WEIRD]

2014-06-30 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
On Thu Jan 9 2014 03:47 Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > This is is an issue that bugged me for a while. I encountered a year > ago (April 2012) when I first tried to build R from source on Windows. > I never figured out what the solution is or if I'm doing something > wrong myself (but I have found a t

[Rd] Building R on Windows: mkdir of Rtools creates directories with read-only permissions [WEIRD]

2014-01-08 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
This is is an issue that bugged me for a while. I encountered a year ago (April 2012) when I first tried to build R from source on Windows. I never figured out what the solution is or if I'm doing something wrong myself (but I have found a tedious workaround). I'm still on the same Windows 7 Ult

Re: [Rd] Building R on Windows 7 -- No rule to make target `etc/GETDESC', needed by `fixetc'.

2011-09-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
Fine for me with R-2.13.2 RC. No idea where you got the differences from. Perhaps reinstall recent version of the Rtools, check the PATH, make sure this is a clean checkout / directory and try again. Uwe ligges On 23.09.2011 13:46, Johannes Egner wrote: Hi all, I have been experiencing dif

[Rd] Building R on Windows 7 -- No rule to make target `etc/GETDESC', needed by `fixetc'.

2011-09-23 Thread Johannes Egner
Hi all, I have been experiencing difficulties building R (be this 2.13.1, beta, devel, or rc) on Windows 7 64bit. I believe I am following the manual religiously, and don't think I am doing anything differently from the many successful build attempts in the past. Unzipping the tarball works fine,

Re: [Rd] Building R on Windows

2005-10-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Jennifer Lai wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > >>On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jennifer Lai wrote: >> >> >>>Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jennifer Lai wrote: >Hi, > I"m a newbie on building R on Windows. I followed the instructions >cited here, >>

Re: [Rd] Building R on Windows

2005-10-13 Thread Jennifer Lai
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jennifer Lai wrote: > >> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jennifer Lai wrote: >>> >>> Hi, I"m a newbie on building R on Windows. I followed the instructions cited here, http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools

Re: [Rd] Building R on Windows

2005-10-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jennifer Lai wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jennifer Lai wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> I"m a newbie on building R on Windows. I followed the instructions >>> cited here, >>> http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ to build R-2.2.0. >>> Everything w

Re: [Rd] Building R on Windows

2005-10-13 Thread Jennifer Lai
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jennifer Lai wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> I"m a newbie on building R on Windows. I followed the instructions >>cited here, >>http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ to build R-2.2.0. >>Everything works fine up till when package base needs to be compiled

Re: [Rd] Building R on Windows

2005-10-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jennifer Lai wrote: > Hi, > I"m a newbie on building R on Windows. I followed the instructions > cited here, > http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ to build R-2.2.0. > Everything works fine up till when package base needs to be compiled. > here is the error message, > >

[Rd] Building R on Windows

2005-10-13 Thread Jennifer Lai
Hi, I"m a newbie on building R on Windows. I followed the instructions cited here, http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ to build R-2.2.0. Everything works fine up till when package base needs to be compiled. here is the error message, -- Making package base adding b