Dear HelpeRs,
I have created a tar.gz package (the package was created on unix)
and I would like to install it in R on a Windows operating system.
As far as I know, R in Windows accepts only packages in zip file for
installation and I could not find a way to install a tar.gz file.
I would like to mention that I installed the package on unix using
install.packages and it works. I also tried to decompress the tar.gz
file and create a zip file but the installation of the resulting zip
files gives me errors.
If your package doesn't contain any compiled C code (or link against
external libraries), simply unpacking the binary .tar.gz package (I've
done this on a Mac, but Linux/Unix should work just as well) and re-
packing it as a .zip archive worked for me. Two caveats:
- make sure that the ZIP archive is just named
<package>_<version>.zip, otherwise R might think it's for a different
version or operating system and may refuse to install it
- you won't get proper Windows help pages for the functions in the
package, only the ASCII versions; last time I tried this, they worked
fine (on R for Windows 2.5.1), at least if called from the command-line
I know this doesn't build a proper package, but it's a quick solution
without having to set up a Windows machine or a cross-building
environment. Once the package is reasonably mature, you can simply
upload it to CRAN and let the wonderful people there build the Windows
binary for you. :-)
Best regards,
Stefan Evert
[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://purl.org/stefan.evert ]
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