building R-package under windows - error - in options("deafultPackages") was not found

Dear all,

I have been building R packages under windows on my old pc, successfully.
Now I have bought a new pc, still running windows, and I am trying to build
the same R packages as before, but now without the same success. I have
installed the Rtools, perl, mingw and added them to the environment
variables.
I am running Windows XP Professional on a Thinkpad T60. I have installed
R-2.4.1, ActivePerl 5.8.8 Build 819, MinGW 5.1.2, and I downloaded
tools.zipfrom
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools.

I receive the following error message:

$ Rcmd build --binary copulaGOF/
* checking for file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'copulaGOF' :
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR

During startup - Warning messages :
' in: library(package, lib.loc = lob.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical =
TRUE,
 in options("defaultPackages") was not found

In my package I have included a zzz.r file that contains the following,
perhaps this is the cause?
.First.lib <-function (lib, pkg)   {
    library(adapt)
    library(copula)
    library(fBasics)
    library(mvtnorm)
    runif(1)
    library.dynam("mypackage", package="mypackage")
}

Any help or comments is most welcome. Thank you.

Best wishes,
Daniel Berg
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Daniel Berg wrote:

Dear all,

I have been building R packages under windows on my old pc, successfully.
Now I have bought a new pc, still running windows, and I am trying to build
the same R packages as before, but now without the same success. I have
installed the Rtools, perl, mingw and added them to the environment
variables.
I am running Windows XP Professional on a Thinkpad T60. I have installed
R-2.4.1, ActivePerl 5.8.8 Build 819, MinGW 5.1.2, and I downloaded
tools.zipfrom
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools.

I receive the following error message:

$ Rcmd build --binary copulaGOF/
* checking for file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'copulaGOF' :
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR

Looks like something is wrong with your DESCRIPTION file. Can you send
us the contents of that file?

Uwe Ligges

During startup - Warning messages :
' in: library(package, lib.loc = lob.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical =
TRUE,
 in options("defaultPackages") was not found

In my package I have included a zzz.r file that contains the following,
perhaps this is the cause?
.First.lib <-function (lib, pkg)   {
    library(adapt)
    library(copula)
    library(fBasics)
    library(mvtnorm)
    runif(1)
    library.dynam("mypackage", package="mypackage")
}

Any help or comments is most welcome. Thank you.

Best wishes,
Daniel Berg
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danielberg.no

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I have tried to uninstall R-2.4.1 and reinstall it but I still get the same
error message. I have also tried reinstalling both mingw and perl, both 
with
no effect.

My DESCRIPTION file:

Package: copulaGOF
Type: Package
Title: Copula simulation, estimation and goodness-of-fit
Version: 1.5
Date: 2006-12-15
Author: Daniel Berg, Henrik Bakken (Norwegian Computing Center)
Depends: adapt, copula, fBasics, mnormt, mvtnorm, scatterplot3d, sn
Maintainer: Daniel Berg <daniel at danielberg.no>
URL: www.danielberg.no
Description: Functions for copula simulation, estimation and 
goodness-of-fit
testing. Includes functions for simulating and estimating higher 
dimensional
distributions.
License: GPL Version 2 or later, GSL-1.6

and the error message read:
$ Rcmd build --binary copulaGOF
* checking for file 'copulaGOF/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'copulaGOF' :
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR
During startup - Warning messages:
'  in: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical =
TRUE,
in options("defaultPackages") was not found

I don't have access to binaries of older versions of R now but will try 
with
older version after the holidays to see if this has an effect.

Regards,
Daniel

On 12/23/06, Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Uwe Ligges wrote:

Daniel Berg wrote:

Dear all,

I have been building R packages under windows on my old pc,

successfully.

Now I have bought a new pc, still running windows, and I am trying to

build

the same R packages as before, but now without the same success. I 

have

installed the Rtools, perl, mingw and added them to the environment
variables.
I am running Windows XP Professional on a Thinkpad T60. I have

installed

R-2.4.1, ActivePerl 5.8.8 Build 819, MinGW 5.1.2, and I downloaded
tools.zipfrom
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools.

I receive the following error message:

$ Rcmd build --binary copulaGOF/
* checking for file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'copulaGOF' :
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR

Looks like something is wrong with your DESCRIPTION file. Can you send
us the contents of that file?

I think rather with his R: the message below says 'During startup', and
indicates that one of the default packages is missing.  That would mean
that it has not got to running the code to look at DESCRIPTION.

Uwe Ligges

During startup - Warning messages :
' in: library(package, lib.loc = lob.loc, character.only = TRUE,

logical =

TRUE,
 in options("defaultPackages") was not found

In my package I have included a zzz.r file that contains the 

following,

perhaps this is the cause?
.First.lib <-function (lib, pkg)   {
    library(adapt)
    library(copula)
    library(fBasics)
    library(mvtnorm)
    runif(1)
    library.dynam("mypackage", package="mypackage")
}

Any help or comments is most welcome. Thank you.

Best wishes,
Daniel Berg
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danielberg.no

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