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website reference for building R packages

6 messages · Laura Holt, Suresh Krishna, roger bos +2 more

Laura Holt
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Hi R People:

A few weeks ago, someone put a link to a website for "how to" for building R 
packages.  It was very nice.

But of course, I have misplaced the link.  Does anyone still have that, 
please?

It was someone from the University of Chicago, I believe.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Laura Holt
mailto: lauraholt_983 at hotmail.com
Suresh Krishna
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it is the first link if you type "making packages" into the google 
search box here:

http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/

-s.
Laura Holt wrote:
1 day later
Uwe Ligges
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Suresh Krishna wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Yes, please look into the archives as the posting guide asks you to do!

            

      
      
      
    

        
Writing R Extensions is an *complete* and *up to date* documentation for 
this task. Package management is being steadily improved.
Really, I recommend to use "Writing R Extensions"!

If you are working on Windows, you might want to look into the R 
Administration and Installation manual as well which descibes how to 
collect and set up the required tools...

Uwe Ligges

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      roger bos
    

    

      
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I used this tutorial and completed steps 1-6 without errors, but on
step 7 I tried to run R CMD check on my package called 'ram' directory
one level above the 'ram' folder and I got the following error?

I:\R_HOME>R CMD check ram
* checking for working latex ...Error: environment variable TMPDIR not set (or s
et to unusable value) and no default available.
 at c:\R\rw2010\share\perl/R/Utils.pm line 72

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,

Roger

        
On 5/25/05, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Henrik Bengtsson
    

    

      
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To get a Command prompt in Windows that is ready for R and its tools, 
see "RCMDprompt.bat" at http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/. It will fix 
your problem.

Cheers

Henrik

        
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roger bos wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Yes, and this is exactly the reason why I do recommend the R manuals: 
they are much more complete for this topic!
It is described in Sections 3.1.9 "Checking the build" and 5.1 
"Installing packages" of R-2.1.0's "R Installation and Administration" 
manual.

Uwe Ligges