Building R packages under Windows.
Hello, My question is the following. Has anyone put together an "idiots" checklist of the steps needed to build a (small personal) package under Windows, or documented their own experiences of building packages under Windows? I ask this as last week there were some very interesting comments regarding the advantages of putting personally written functions together as a package rather than sourcing them in at the start of a session using .Rprofile. They inspired me to try to build my own package for a few functions I use in teaching on my laptop running Windows XP . I read and reread "Writing R extensions" I installed Pearl and tried build on a modified package.skeleton. I fairly quickly worked out I needed to do things like setting Tmpdir as an environment variable, but then I got stuck and frustrated and gave up. I'm sure that with more time I would get things working, but I don't have more time. Could the process be made smoother through better documentation? This may sound like laziness, but I do guess that there are others are in the same position who find that the initiial hassles of building a package (under Windows) leads to a negative cost benefit balance over less elegant solutions. Thanks, Duncan Golicher
Dr Duncan Golicher Ecologia y Sistematica Terrestre Conservaci?n de la Biodiversidad El Colegio de la Frontera Sur San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico Tel. 967 1883 ext 1310 Celular 044 9671041021 dgoliche at sclc.ecosur.mx