Re: [R] Rcmd check package failure

den.duurs@lycos.com

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Remko Duursma, Ph.D. student
Forest Biometrics Lab / Idaho Stable Isotope Lab
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, U.S.A.
--------- Original Message ---------
DATE: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:41:50
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Remko Duursma <den.duurs@lycos.com>
Cc: rhelp <r-help@r-project.org>
>On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Remko Duursma wrote:
>
>> recently, i tried making a package with my own functions - which worked
>> fine, until i reinstalled MikTex (in Win2000). Now i get the error
>> message:
>> 
>> * checking for working latex ... NO
>> * using log directory 'C:/Rlibs/R4PG.Rcheck'
>> * checking for file 'R4PG/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
>
>Was there nothing here at all?
>
>>  ERROR
>> Installation failed.
>
>That's an installation failure.  Do run Rcmd INSTALL first to check that 
>you can install the package: you may well get more informative error 
>messages.
>
>> But i set the path to MikTex, and "latex" as well as "pdftex" both run in the (Win) command window.
>> I use R1.81 but also tried in R1.71.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>
>Look again, more carefully.  According to `check' you do not have latex in
>your path, even if you think you do. But the installation failure has some
>other cause.
>
>-- 
>Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
>Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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