[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp installation problem on Windows XP

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 19 March 2012 at 08:25, Isabella Ghement wrote:
| Hello,
|  
| I am trying to get the "Rcpp" and "inline" libraries to work with R 2.14.2 on a
| Windows XP platform and have followed all of the instructions I was able to
| find with Google's help:
|      
|     1)  Installed R 2.14.2 in a directory without white spaces in its name (C:\
| R\R-2.14.2);
|      
|     2)  Installed the latest version of R tools in C:\R\Rtools, which comes
| with a folder named gcc-4.6.3;
|      
|     3) Changed the PATH environment to C:\R\Rtools\bin;C:\R\Rtools\gcc-4.6.3\
| bin;C:\R\R-2.14.2\bin\i386;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32 
|      
|     4) Installed the R packages rcpp and inline in R. 
|      
|     However, when trying to execute a simple Rcpp/inline example in R, I get an
| error message which seems to suggest that Rcpp cannot link to the gcc
| compiler.  Here is part of the error message:
|  
| cygwin warning:
|   MS-DOS style path detected: C:/R/R-214~1.2/etc/i386/Makeconf
|   Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/R/R-214~1.2/etc/i386/Makeconf
|   CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
|   Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
|     http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
| g++.exe: error: C:/Documents: No such file or directory
| g++.exe: error: and: No such file or directory
| g++.exe: error: Settings/dv6110ca/My: No such file or directory
| g++.exe: error: Documents/R/win-library/2.14/Rcpp/lib/i386/libRcpp.a: No such
| file
|  
| Any ideas on what might cause Rcpp to not work and how to overcome this?

There is a still a "C:/Documents and Settings/" somewhere which then gets
broken as shown by the g++ error message (as I highlight below):

  g++.exe: error: C:/Documents
  g++.exe: error: and
  g++.exe: error: Settings/

Dirk

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