On Jul 22, 2009, at 10:28 , Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 7/22/2009 9:10 AM, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
Hi,
Thanks; that confirms that the problem originates where I thought
it did, and provides a fix from within R.
However, the original problem was that running "Rcmd check" from a
Windows/DOS com
On 7/22/2009 9:10 AM, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
Hi,
Thanks; that confirms that the problem originates where I thought it
did, and provides a fix from within R.
However, the original problem was that running "Rcmd check" from a
Windows/DOS command prompt on a package on a mounted Samba network
Hi,
Thanks; that confirms that the problem originates where I thought it
did, and provides a fix from within R.
However, the original problem was that running "Rcmd check" from a
Windows/DOS command prompt on a package on a mounted Samba network drive
fails. The failure occurs because of th
See r-devel thread '[Rd] file.access() on network (mounted) drive on
Windows Vista' on Nov 26, 2008:
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e5/devel/08/11/0806.html
where it was concluded that file.access() is "not 100%", e.g.
file.access() and file.info() can give different answers.
I added fileAc
The results of the session below are the same in 2.8.1 as in 2.9.1
(including in particular the response to the call to file.access).
Kevin
Tony Plate wrote:
Did you try starting up R-2.8.1 and checking the result of
file.access(lib, 2) on that very same directory where R-2.9.1 gives an
inc
Did you try starting up R-2.8.1 and checking the result of
file.access(lib, 2) on that very same directory where R-2.9.1 gives an
incorrect indication? If that gives the correct answer, then, look for
changes in the file.access code.
-- Tony Plate
Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
Hi,
The problem al
Hi,
The problem almost certainly has something to do with Samba. We also
have a NetApp file system, and copying the package source to that drive
and running Rcmd check from Windows works just fine.
When running the commands from an interactive R session, file_test
returns TRUE and file.acce
This error message looks like it comes from
src/library/tools/R/install.R, which contains the following test:
if (!.file_test("-d", lib) || file.access(lib, 2L))
stop("ERROR: no permission to install to directory ",
sQuote(lib), call. = FALSE)
The function .file_test() is
Hi,
I have just updated R from version 2.8.1 to version 2.9.1. I am running
Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3.
With the update, I decided to update a set of packages that I maintain
by compiling them for the new version. Everything worked fine except
for one package. This package is
