On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Peter Kleiweg wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley schreef op de 7e dag van de wijnmaand van het jaar 2005: > >> 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. > > Installing worked fine. Building a binary distribution (with > compiled help files) is what didn't work. > > This worked fine: > > Rcmd build iL04 > > But that just gave a gzip'ed tarfile, not a zip-file, and > without the compiled helpfiles. > > This didn't work: > > Rcmd build --force --binary iL04 > > >>> 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. > > Well, I just ran the install program for Windows, with compiled > html help, but without the ordinary html help files. In that > case, no CONTENTS files get installed.
Ah, that's the clue. People normally build complete binary distributions: let's see if we can track that down. >> The recommended way to build a binary package on Windows is >> >> R CMD INSTALL --build > > Yes, that works. Even without the CONTENTS files. And this is > recommended in the manual "Creating R packages", another manual > than Duncan Murdoch was referring to. > > I was using a method that was recommended in earlier versions. > Perhaps that method should just be disabled, with a > message about the current method, instead of having it fail for > obscure reasons. It is not quite the same thing. I have been in favour of removing it, but others have differed in their opinions. -- 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
