Building latest version of package
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:
Hi I have a package which was built using R 1.9.1 and everything worked fine. I recently upgraded to R 2.0.1 and tried to re-install my package - and I got: Error in library(mypackage) : 'mypackage' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
I don't think you re-installed it, rather unzipped the zip file.
So I tried rebuilding it using my new version of R: R CMD BUILD --binary mypackage hhc: not found cp: cannot stat `mypackage.chm': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [chm-mypackage] Error 1 make: *** [pkg-mypackage] Error 2 *** Installation of mypackage failed *** Removing 'f:/tmp/Rbuild.2972/mypackage' ERROR * installation failed I didn't have these problems before. What is "hhc" and why can't R find it?
README.packages says what it is, and R is not looking for it, but make is. Probably because you didn't check the checklist in README.packages. This is not a new requirement.
In general, will I have to re-build my package everytime a new version of R is released?
No. But we are talking about installing, not building, here. Please look in `Writing R Extensions' to see the difference.
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