On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Peter Kleiweg wrote: > Duncan Murdoch schreef op de 6e dag van de wijnmaand van het jaar 2005: > >> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Peter Kleiweg wrote: >> >>> >>> What has changed in R for Windows from version 1.7.1 to >>> 2.2.0 that won't allow me to build binary packages? >> >> Many things have changed; I don't know which is causing the failure you see. >> One change is that instructions are now collected in the Installation and >> Administration manual. Try following the setup instructions there and see if >> it still fails. > > I can't find anything on building packages for Windows in that > manual.
Your problems was installing, so the section on `Installing Packages' should help you. A binary build is an install plus wrapping-up. > I did find a solution to the problem. On a Linux install, each > package has a file CONTENTS. These are missing from the Windows > install. I copied those files from my Linux install to my > Windows install, and then I could build my own package. So I > guess, these CONTENTS files should be included in the Windows > install. And indeed they are, as the presence of 500+ packages on CRAN for Windows will show you. The recommended way to build a binary package on Windows is R CMD INSTALL --build since that is able to get HTML links made (on Windows, you need to install in the main library tree to do so). > > I got another error message when I remove a package, but I > couldn't see what effect this error has. When I run: > > d:\>Rcmd REMOVE iL04 > > The package gets removed, but I get: > > make: *** No rule to make target `indices'. Stop. That does seem a recent bug, soon to be fixed in R-patched. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
