r cmd build
The Writing Extensions manual says to do an R CMD build for releases to CRAN. That's what I have been doing and that does produce a .tar.gz file even though I get a message about hhc.exe. Is that what I should continue to do and ignore the message or should I be using one of the alternatives you mention to create a .tar.gz release file on Vista?
On 9/16/07, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
On 15/09/2007 10:27 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Windows Vista hhc.exe is not available. One can do this on an install: rcmd install --docs=normal myPackage to avoid the message about hhc.exe; however, "rcmd build" does not appear to support --docs=normal so one cannot do a build without getting a message about hhc.exe (although the build still proceeds).
Are you talking about "build --binary"? I recommend using "install --build" instead. AFAIK a non-binary build doesn't make any use of hhc. Another way to do an install or build without getting that message is to indicate in src/gnuwin32/MkRules that you don't want to build CHM help. Duncan Murdoch