Peter Ruckdeschel wrote:
Prof Brian Ripley schrieb:
That version of R-devel is not current, so please update it.
I think it might have been in an interval where we tried out
verious fixes for building bundles and some of them broke
other things.
Yes, I really should have updated; in fact the error re-disappeared
again using the most recent version.
--- But the fix must have happened within the last two weeks ....
In fact, before posting, I had a look at
http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel
but did not find anything that was pointing to the direction
that the problem had been solved in the period April 26
(release date of my "old" R-devel version) and
today.
Nor had I found anything pointing to either R CMD build
nor to bundles changed in the interval Feb 09 -- April 26,
but the error-causing changes must have happened within
this period ---
So my fault not having updated gratefully ackowledged, it would
also be nice to be somewhat more detailed in filling the
NEWS file then...
In general if you use R-devel or R-patched you need to update before
reporting any difficulties. 'Under development' needs to be taken
seriously.
On Fri, 15 May 2009, 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?
That's rather old as well: now the second calls the first on Windows.
What may matter is whether you specify -l on R CMD INSTALL --build
(R CMD build --binary does), as installing into the main library does a
better job of resolving HTML cross links.
So the advice is to use R CMD INSTALL --build *and* install into the
main library (or the library where you install all your add-on packages).
Thank you for clarifying this and once again apologies for stirring you
up with something that had been fixed in the mean-time already.
For R-devel, it is in the svn logs. Since it may change again, NEWS is
not always edited while things are tested.
Uwe Ligges
Best, Peter
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