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User package - Simple Ports
2 messages · Keith J Sabol, Sundar Dorai-Raj
Keith J Sabol wrote:
R experts, I created a package X for R 1.8 that I want to re-install for 2.0.1. In addition to downloading/installing Perl and Rtools as directed in the README.packages file and ensuring that they appear in my path, I have modified X's DESCRIPTION file to include all required fields. Additionally I have deleted the "built" line since the make process will add that. The source contains no Fortran/C/C++ and resides in . R/rw2000/src/library
From .R/rw2000/src/gnuwin32> make X -X seems to run the make utility,
but the package is never installed. In R 1.8 manually added the build line and copied the package directory into the library tree and library(X) worked without a formal install (As you would guess this was a work-around for my earlier and evidently persistent lack of success in my package installation endeavors.). The same work-around approach seems not to work with 2.0.
Keith, Have you read "Writing R Extensions" that comes with each R distribution? In it you will see that to CHECK/BUILD/INSTALL packages you need to use R CMD. As in > R CMD CHECK X <snip check messages> > R CMD INSTALL X <snip install messages> > R CMD BUILD X # to build the package into X_<version>.tar.gz <snip build messages> > R CMD BUILD --binary X # to compile the package into X_<version>.zip <snip build messages> This is no different from the 1.8.x way of building packages on Windows except I think back then Rcmd was the equivalent of R CMD. My version of R is currently R-2.0.0patched on Windows 2000. --sundar