The difference is in INSTALL, not build/check.
You are right that the Unix INSTALL was changed in r25808 (Aug 2003), but
AFAICS this was not documented at the time in [O]NEWS, nor anywhere else.
Can you point me to the documentation you used to implement this?
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 28/04/2008 12:22 PM, Stefan Theussl wrote:
Dear R-devel,
One of our R-Forge developers pointed out that it is not possible to build
packages under Windows using the R-Forge repository structure: a package
resides in ./pkg - not in a directory with the same name as the package
name.
Under Linux 'R CMD build pkg' or 'R CMD check pkg' work pretty well (I
think Kurt Hornik fixed that in R 2.5.1 or so) whereas under Windows one
gets the following error (this is the example sent by the user):
c:\work\packages\spdep>R CMD check pkg
* checking for working pdflatex ... OK
* using log directory 'C:/work/packages/spdep/pkg.Rcheck'
* using R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
* using session charset: ISO8859-1
* checking for file 'pkg/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'spdep' version '0.4-21'
* package encoding: latin1
* checking package name space information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... WARNING
Subdirectory 'pkg/src' contains object files.
* checking whether package 'spdep' can be installed ... ERROR
Installation failed.
See 'C:/work/packages/spdep/pkg.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.
which is:
installing R.css in C:/work/packages/spdep/pkg.Rcheck
---------- Making package pkg ------------
adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
installing NAMESPACE file and metadata
making DLL ...
... DLL made
installing DLL
installing R files
installing inst files
installing data files
preparing package pkg for lazy loading
Loading required package: tripack
Loading required package: sp
...
Error in findpack(package, lib.loc) : *there is no package called 'pkg'*
Calls: <Anonymous> -> findpack
Execution halted
make[2]: *** [lazyload] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [pkg-pkg] Error 2
*** Installation of pkg failed ***
I could verify this on our 'Windows package building machine' not only for
this package but also for others.
Therefore, it seems to me that the (Windows) R CMD build/check scripts are
not considering the package name in the DESCRIPTION file but rather take
the directory name as package name.
Or are we just doing something completely wrong?
You're right, on Windows there's an assumption that package foo is in
directory foo. But I don't see why this is a big problem. Can't you just
check out pkg into foo, e.g.
svn co svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/foo/pkg foo
(Not that I'd be against accepting a patch to remove this restriction;
occasionally it might be nice to have two versions of the same package
side-by-side.)
Duncan Murdoch
I used R-patched 2.7.0 on R-Forge to reproduce this error.
Best regards,
Stefan
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