On 5/15/2009 8:10 AM, Peter Ruckdeschel wrote:
Hi,
I am having a problem building binary packages for
Windows recently.
Normally, I use the "Murdoch-Sutherland" tool set,
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/
just build source packages by
R CMD build <pkgname>
and install these with
R CMD INSTALL <pkgname>
But now, for someone without having this tool set installed,
under Win XP, with R-2.10dev (details below), I tried
building a binary version with
R CMD build --binary <pkgname>
which used to work for me until recently (unfortunately I
cannot specify "recently" here...)
Trying to install the created .zip file with
utils:::menuInstallLocal()
I get an error message
"
package 'distr' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in unpackPkg(pkgs[i], pkgnames[i], lib) :
malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field
"
Now AFAICS I have not tried to build a bundle ...
Searching the help archives, I found a posting by Uwe Ligges,
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/64574/
saying that
R CMD INSTALL --build
was preferable to
R CMD build --binary
--- in which respect? Would this avoid the error message?
The main benefit is that links between help pages will be more likely to
be set correctly.
So far I have not come across this error message, and
packages I built with
R CMD build --binary
installed correctly with
utils:::menuInstallLocal()
Actually, the corresponding zip-file containes
a second DESCRIPTION file in the top folder, like a
bundle, which I think is the culpit, and after
deleting this installation worked out fine.
Could you please check what caused this second
DESCRIPTION file to be generated?
You can't have two files with the same name in the same folder in
Windows. However, Windows Explorer by default hides file extensions, so
it may look as though you do. Was the file you deleted called
DESCRIPTION.in?
I use Rcmd INSTALL --build most of the time and have never seen your
error. I just tried Rcmd build --binary and the file installed okay.
Can you give a recipe to reproduce the error?
Duncan Murdoch
Any suggestions welcome,
Best, Peter
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platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386
os mingw32
system i386, mingw32
status Under development (unstable)
major 2
minor 10.0
year 2009
month 04
day 26
svn rev 48404
language R
version.string R version 2.10.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-04-26
r48404)
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