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Two problems building a package

2 messages · Wollenberg, Kurt R, Uwe Ligges

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Wollenberg, Kurt R
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Hello all:

I have written a few R scripts and am trying to turn them into a package for
submission to CRAN. All of these scripts are R code only, no C or C++ or
anything else. I'm working with R 2.0.1 running on a Windows XP machine. So
far running ">rcmd install --build --docs=normal mypkge" seems to work
(i.e., the library "mypkge" is installed in R\rw2001\library and the library
loads and the scripts do what I have written them to do). 

While this is all well and good I have two (hopefully small) problems.
First, running ">rcmd check mypkge" on R\rw2001\bin\mypkg (not
R\rw2001\library\mtpkge) returns the error "\bin\mypkge is not a source
package." Have I got something very wrong or am I misunderstanding which
directory contains the "source" package? Second, I've included some
equations in the Details section of one of my .Rd files and would like to
check that I've coded them correctly in the documentation before submission.
So far, my html and latex docs don't contain a details section, even though
they contain all other recent changes. My detail section looks like this:

\details{blah blah blah 
    \deqn{blah = Blah}{%
      blah = Blah}
where 	\eqn{blah}{%blah} = frequency of \emph{b} in Blah.

  Blah blah blah.
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Kurt Wollenberg, PhD
Tufts Center for Vision Research 
New England Medical Center
750 Washington St, Box 450 
Boston, MA, USA
kwollenberg at tufts-nemc.org 
617-636-8945 (Fax)
617-636-9028 (Lab)

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but  "That's funny ..." 
--Isaac Asimov


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1 day later
Uwe Ligges
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Wollenberg, Kurt R wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
You are talking about your *package* and your *functions*, I think.

            

      
      
      
    

        
Does not need to be in ...../bin

            

      
      
      
    

        
So your source package is broken somehow. Please check the DESCRIPTION file.

            

      
      
      
    

        
The "%" above seem to be dangerous (without having tested) ...

Uwe Ligges