[R] Making R packages

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:39:53 +0200, you wrote:

>Then he gets the following error (approximate 
>translation of a French message) :
>	"Perl is not recognized as an internal or 
>external command, an executable file or a command 
>file"
>
>Perl has of course been installed on the PC and 
>my colleague has the "Tools" file. He does not 
>know what is wrong although he suspects that 
>environment variables (which ones?) must be 
>changed.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.

Sounds as though his PATH is missing the Perl directory.  Quoting the
INSTALL file:

>Check your path
>---------------
>
>You need the following in your path (with the first two first):
>.
>our toolset
>mingw\bin
>Perl\bin
>the latex bin directory
>zip.exe, unzip.exe, hhc.exe

Duncan Murdoch