I think you have been using R too long. Something like
this is very much needed. There are two problems:
1. the process itself is too complex (need to get rid of perl,
integrate package development tools with package installation
procedure [it should be as easy as downloading a package],
remove necessity to set or modify any environment variables
including the path variables).
2. there is too much material to absorb just to create a package.
The manuals are insufficient.
A step-by-step simplification is very much needed. Its no
coincidence that there are a number of such descriptions on
the net (google for 'making creating R package') since I would
guess that just about everyone has significant problems in creating
their first package on Windows.
On 7/21/05, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ivy_Li wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > With the warm support of every R expert, I have built my R library
> > successfully.
> > Especially thanks: Duncan Murdoch
> > Gabor Grothendieck
> > Henrik Bengtsson
> > Uwe Ligges
>
> You are welcome.
>
>
> The following is intended for the records in the archive in order to
> protect readers.
>
>
> > Without your help, I will lower efficiency.
> > I noticed that some other friends were puzzled by the method of building
> > library. Now, I organize a document about it. Hoping it can help more
> > friends.
> >
> > 1. Read the webpage <http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools>
>
> Do you mean http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ ?
>
> > 2. Download the "rw2011.exe"; Install the newest version of R
> > 3. Download the "tools.zip"; Unpack it into c:\cygwin
>
> Not required to call it "cygwin" - also a bit misleading...
>
> > 4. Download the "ActivePerl-5.6.1.633-MSWin32-x86.msi"; Install Active Perl
> > in c:\Perl
>
> Why in C:\Perl ?
>
> > 5. Download the "MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe"; Install the mingw32 port of gcc in
> > c:\mingwin
>
> Why in c:\mingwin ?
>
>
> > 6. Then go to "Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables
> > -> Path -> Variable Balue"; add "c:\cygwin;c:\mingwin\bin"
> > The PATH variable already contains a couple of paths, add the two
> > given above in front of all others, separated by ";".
> > Why we add them in the beginning of the path? Because we want the
> > folder that contains the tools to be at the beginning so that you eliminate
> > the possibility of finding a different program of the same name first in a
> > folder that comes prior to the one where the tools are stored.
>
>
> OK, this (1-6) is all described in the R Administration and Installation
> manual, hence I do not see why we have to repeat it here.
>
>
> > 7. I use the package.skeleton() function to make a draft package. It will
> > automate some of the setup for a new source package. It creates
> > directories, saves functions and data to appropriate places, and creates
> > skeleton help files and 'README' files describing further steps in
> > packaging.
> > I type in R:
> > >f <- function(x,y) x+y
> > >g <- function(x,y) x-y
> > >d <- data.frame(a=1, b=2)
> > >e <- rnorm(1000)
> > >package.skeleton(list=c("f","g","d","e"), name="example")
> > Then modify the 'DESCRIPTION':
> > Package: example
> > Version: 1.0-1
> > Date: 2005-07-09
> > Title: My first function
> > Author: Ivy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Maintainer: Ivy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Description: simple sum and subtract
> > License: GPL version 2 or later
> > Depends: R (>= 1.9), stats, graphics, utils
> > You can refer to the web page:
> > http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/ There are larger
> > source of examples. And you can read the part of 'Creating R Packages' in
> > 'Writing R Extension'. It introduces some useful things for your reference.
>
>
> This is described in Writing R Extension and is not related to the setup
> of you system in 1-6.
>
>
> >
> > 8. Download hhc.exe Microsoft help compiler from somewhere. And save it
> > somewhere in your path.
> > I download a 'htmlhelp.exe' and setup. saved the hhc.exe into the
> > 'C:\cygwin\bin' because this path has been writen in my PATH Variable Balue.
> > However if you decided not to use the Help Compiler (hhc), then you
> > need to modify the MkRules file in RHOME/src/gnuwin32 to tell it not to try
> > to build that kind of help file
>
>
> This is described in the R Administration and Installation manual
> and I do not see why we should put the html compiler to the other tools.
>
>
> > 9. In the DOS environment. Into the "D:\>" Type the following code:
>
> There is no DOS environment in Windows NT based operating systems.
>
>
> > cd \Program Files\R\rw2010
> > bin\R CMD INSTALL "/Program Files/R/rw2011/example"
>
> I do not see why anybody would like to contaminate the binary
> installation of R with some development source packages.
> I'd rather use a separate directory.
>
> I think reading the two mentioned manuals shoul be sufficient. You have
> not added relevant information. By adding irrelevant information and
> omitting some relevant information, I guess we got something that is
> misleading if the reader does NOT read the manuals as well.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
> > Firstly, because I install the new version R in the D:\Program Files\. So I
> > should first into the D drive. Secondly, because I use the
> > package.skeleton() function to build 'example' package in the path of
> > D:\Program Files\R\rw2011\ So I must tell R the path where saved the
> > 'example' package. So I write the code is like that. If your path is
> > different from me, you should modify part of these code.
> >
> > 10.Finally, this package is successfully built up.
> >
> > ---------- Making package example ------------
> > adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
> > installing R files
> > installing data files
> > installing man source files
> > installing indices
> > not zipping data
> > installing help
> > >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'example'
> > Formats: text html latex example chm
> > d text html latex example
> > e text html latex example
> > f text html latex example
> > g text html latex example
> > adding MD5 sums
> >
> > * DONE (example)
> >
> > I was very happy to get the great results. I hope the document can help
> > you. Thank you again for everyone's support.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards!
> > Ivy Li（李琛）
> > YMS in Production & Testing
> > Semiconductor Manufactory International(ShangHai) Corporation
> > #18 ZhangJiang Road, PuDong New Area, Shanghai, China
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> >
> >
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