ERROR: LoadError: could not spawn `make all`: no such file or directory (ENOENT)...while loading ...\Rif.jl,

[Danny Hunt]

Julia Support,

I am running a clean install of the windows 64b version of Julia 0.4.6.

When I try to assign the R interface package 'Rif' I get the following output:
 
 julia> using Rif
 INFO: Precompiling module DataFrames...
 WARNING: Base.String is deprecated, use AbstractString instead.
   likely near ...\.julia\v0.4\Rif\src\Rif.jl:42
 WARNING: Base.String is deprecated, use AbstractString instead.
   likely near ...\.julia\v0.4\Rif\src\Rif.jl:42
 WARNING: Base.String is deprecated, use AbstractString instead.
   likely near ...\.julia\v0.4\Rif\src\Rif.jl:46    ...
 *********************************************************
 Can't find librinterface.so; attempting to compile...
 *********************************************************
 ERROR: LoadError: could not spawn `make all`: no such file or directory (ENOENT) in _jl_spawn at process.jl:262 while loading ...\.julia\v0.4\Rif\src\Rif.jl, in expression starting on line 71

The earlier warnings may indicate that the package has not been updated with relatively recent language changes. 

The later file not found error appears to indicate the file 'make all' is not in the ../deps directory (an inspection confirms this to be true).  Perhaps this indicates that the package has not completed being configured for windows. If this is the case any idea when this might be fully working with Windows?

Cheers,
--- Danny K. Hunt
 

[Tony Kelman]

The package is trying to build something with a Makefile. That's not going to work for the vast majority of Windows users. To support Windows someone would need to build and post Windows binaries of whatever the package is trying to build, then set the package up to automatically download those binaries at install time.

[Diego Javier Zea]

Hi!
There is another package for using R from Julia named RCall.jl
RCall works fine in Windows.
Best,

[Danny Hunt]

This works great, thank so much!