On 20/02/2012 18:20, sahir bhatnagar wrote:
sorry I don't seem to be getting it. I am working on windows XP. I have tried several ways of writing the 'BinaryFiles' which includefile("C:/myPkg/inst/executables/win32/foo.exe") '\r\n' file("C:/myPkg/inst/executables/win32/foo.exe") CRLF "C:/myPkg/inst/executables/win32/foo.exe" CRLF and variations of the above, but to no avail.
Indeed you are not. It is a file, listing one filepath per line, with each line (including the last) terminated by an end of line marker.
Why don't you ask your local IT support for help with creating text files? It is not an R topic.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 20/02/2012 17:17, sahir bhatnagar wrote: thanks, I run into the following error message when running R CMD check "Source packages should not contain undeclared executable files" in reference to the following instruction from the help manual: "R CMD check will warn about them unless they are listed (one filepath per line) in a file BinaryFiles at the top level of the package." I created a file called 'BinaryFiles' placed in 'myPkg' directory. 'BinaryFiles' lists the path of the executable files that are included in myPkg/executables/win32. however I am still getting an error: Warning in readLines("BinaryFiles"): incomplete final line found on 'Binary Files' That is a warning, not an error. And it means that you did not create the file correctly: ensure that you have an EOL mark (newline or CRLF depending on your OS) at the end of the last line. -Sahir On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:17 PM, William Dunlap<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: If you put your prebuilt.exe into a directory under the 'source' package's inst directory, say yourPkg/inst/executables/__win32, then the installed package will have them in in yourPkg/executables/win32 and the user (via code you write, presumably) can get the full path to the executable in the installed package with system.file(package="yourPkg", "executables", "win32", "prebuilt.exe"). Paste the output of that into the command given to system(). Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com <http://tibco.com> -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of sahir bhatnagar Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 12:59 PM To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Rd] executable files R package thanks, I will not submit to CRAN. I am having trouble going about including the .exe files in my package. > From the readings I see that the .exe files must be placed in a 'src' folder. But I don't see how I can access those files in R, without having to specify its path in the R command 'system'. I would like for the user to only have to input a data file, which is then used in the .exe file. My problem is the following: Create a function which has two user inputs i.e. datasets: D1.txt and D2.txt I have two '.exe' files i.e. E1.exe and E2.exe E1 takes in D1 and then outputs a text file say "text" then E2 takes in D2 and the "text", which outputs the result. Can this be done (even if it means having two functions) and then assembled in a package, without the user having to specify the path of the .exe files, as well as the "text" that is outputted from running E1? Any direction as to how I can go about creating a package that would include these '.exe. files? I have only found documentation on calling .C code in R. Any help is much appreciated On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Duncan Murdoch <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>__wrote: On 13/02/2012 2:36 PM, sahir bhatnagar wrote: I am in the process of creating a package in R which calls pre-compiled C code i.e. '.exe' files in Windows. Since CRAN will not accept packages with binary code files, what are my options to meet the requirements while still including the executable file? I think you should ask the CRAN administrators that, but my understanding is that they are unlikely to accept your package as described. CRAN is interested in platform-neutral packages, and if you have an .exe, you're going to be Windows-only. If you include the source code for that .exe and put together the Makefile to compile it, then they'd be more receptive, and someone might offer help to get it to run on other platforms if it doesn't on your first attempt. If you don't want to include the .exe source (or can't), I think you should just publish it on your own web page. Duncan Murdoch I read section 1.5.2 of the manual which mentions three options two of which involve negotiating with CRAN administrators. The third references the package Cairo which arranges to download additional software, but I don't see how this will allow my package to get accepted. It would seem that I need to ensure that my package works under both architectures (32 and 64 bit). 1) Would this be sufficient to get it accepted? 2) If so, does anyone have any documentation in performing this task, or can someone point me in the right direction? I was told that 'arulesSequences' is an example of a CRAN package while compiles executables. 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