Re: [R] Different missing links on Windows in 'check' vs. 'install'

2004-03-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 12:38:33 + (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> Here's a proposal: >> >> All of check and build and install should default to the same library >> location. Check and build aren't meant to be permanent installs,

Re: [R] Different missing links on Windows in 'check' vs. 'install'

2004-03-09 Thread Robert Gentleman
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:38:33PM +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:03:44 + (GMT), you wrote: > > > > >No, both will find links in the same library as installing into (plus > > >those which are fixed up on installation, e.

Re: [R] Different missing links on Windows in 'check' vs. 'install'

2004-03-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:03:44 + (GMT), you wrote: > > >No, both will find links in the same library as installing into (plus > >those which are fixed up on installation, e.g. to the base package). > > > >Several of us have looked for years for a fix,

Re: [R] Different missing links on Windows in 'check' vs. 'install'

2004-03-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:03:44 + (GMT), you wrote: >No, both will find links in the same library as installing into (plus >those which are fixed up on installation, e.g. to the base package). > >Several of us have looked for years for a fix, and this is the best scheme >we have come up with. Yo

Re: [R] Different missing links on Windows in 'check' vs. 'install'

2004-03-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:20:29 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > > >In trying to figure out how these things are determiend, I noticed that in > >Windows there was a difference in the reported missing links when one does > >'Rcmd check' vs 'Rcmd install' (or 'Rcmd

Re: [R] Different missing links on Windows in 'check' vs. 'install'

2004-03-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Note that on Windows only packages in the same library are checked for links, as on Windows the HTML help cannot link across libraries. (This is done under Unix via symbolic links.) By default check installs in a private library, so you may well see (correct) reports of missing links under Win

Re: [R] Different missing links on Windows in 'check' vs. 'install'

2004-03-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:20:29 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >In trying to figure out how these things are determiend, I noticed that in >Windows there was a difference in the reported missing links when one does >'Rcmd check' vs 'Rcmd install' (or 'Rcmd install --build'). In the >example above, using eit

[R] Different missing links on Windows in 'check' vs. 'install'

2004-03-08 Thread Jeff Gentry
Hello ... Using R-1.9.0 alpha, I'm having some problem getting a few packages to pass check under Windows - specifically with the 'missing link(s)' section of the package install phase. I started trying to track down how the missing link was showing up as in some cases I could not see why the lin