astokes wrote:
Full_Name: Allan Stokes
Version: 2.8.1
OS: XP
Submission from: (NULL) (24.108.0.245)
I've just spent a hellish six hours trying to create my own R package with
a
bare bones "hello world" R function inside. I was able to create a
package.tar.gz file eventually with much perseverance.
My remaining problem is that when I try to install my simple package under
RGui,
it hangs.
install.packages("c:/testR/scupper_1.0.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source",
lib="c:/allanR")
The hung process tree as shown by SysInternals Process Explorer.
[snip]
I've tried this under Rtools 2.9 and then 2.8. I also updated my Cygwin
config
(which was pretty current).
No dice.
My little package contains an R function as such:
`ahoy` <-
function () { cat ("Shiver me timbers!\n")}
And a DESCRIPTION file like this:
Package: scupper
Type: Package
Title: Ship ahoy
Version: 1.0
Date: 2009-05-30
Author: Allan Stokes
Maintainer: <astokes at esica.com>
Description: Responds to ahoy() greeting.
License: internal use only
LazyLoad: yes
There are empty data, man, and test directories.
I would reboot my system and try again, but I'd have to shut down 30
programs on
nine desktops, and I haven't got that many lives. I have been sure to
restart
RGui with the correct PATH env. for each test run.
I admit that I haven't tried to build packages under Windows, but what was "hellish"? Is there a chance that you managed to build a malformed package? Can you post your source package somewhere for others to check?
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