Unable to install in Windows

[aromanowski]

Dear HajkD,
I tried to install orthologr in a Win 8 laptop, running R Studio 0.98.1091 + R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31) -- "Pumpkin Helmet", Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit), and Bioconductor version 3.0 (BiocInstaller 1.16.5).

When I tried to install orthologr, I got the following message:

devtools::install_github("HajkD/orthologr", build_vignettes = TRUE, dependencies = TRUE)
Downloading github repo HajkD/orthologr@master
Installing orthologr
Skipping 2 packages not available: Biostrings, IRanges
"C:/PROGRA1/R/R-311.2/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save
--no-restore CMD INSTALL
"C:/Users/Andres/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpyKKyw9/devtools1620ecb385b/HajkD-orthologr-0c8658a"
--library="d:/Users/Andres/Documents/R/win-library/3.1" --install-tests

• installing source package 'orthologr' ...
  ** libs

*** arch - i386
Warning: running command 'make -f "C:/PROGRA1/R/R-311.2/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f >"C:/PROGRA1/R/R-311.2/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB_LDFLAGS='$(SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS)' >SHLIB_LD='$(SHLIB_CXXLD)' SHLIB="orthologr.dll" OBJECTS="RcppExports.o gestimator.o"' had >status 127
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'orthologr'

• removing 'd:/Users/Andres/Documents/R/win-library/3.1/orthologr'
  Error: Command failed (1)

Could you help me?

Thank you very much in advance,
Andres

[aromanowski]

I found out how to work it out... maybe you can add it to the readme file =)

Here is how I solved this problem on my Windows 8 computer:

Install Rtools
Locate the folder that Rtools is installed. In my case it is at C:\Rtools.
Add C:\Rtools\bin path to the system path.
Adding C:\Rtools\bin to the system path:

Go to Control Panel >> System and Security >> System
Go to Advanced System Settings
Open Advanced tab
Click Environmental Variables... button
Select Path variable and click Edit button
If there is nothing as a "Variable Value" you can simply write C:\Rtools\bin. If there is already a >value, then add ;C:\Rtools\bin to the end of it.
Click OK, OK...
Restart R, it should work.

Hope this helps other Windows users that are interested in your R package!

Best,
Andres

[HajkD]

Dear Andres,

thank you very much for pointing this issue out to me and for finding and sharing the solution!

I added a troubleshooting section to the README: https://github.com/HajkD/orthologr#troubleshooting-on-windows-machines and committed the changes: 42bd033 .

Again, thank you very much for your input and always feel free to ask if you need further support or functionality :)

Have a great day!

Hajk