Mick, Questions about packaging are better suited for R-devel (so I'm redirecting there).
My understanding is that R CMD build mypkg, w/o other flags, does a bit more than tar/gzip: it skips junk files (e.g., .o, .a, .so, etc.). Also, the --force flag will update the INDEX file. On Windows, you'll probably want R CMD build --binary mypkg for building binary package. What this does is install the package in a temporary location, then zip that installed package. The installation step is necessary, at least because the help files need to be generated from the Rd files. HTH, Andy > From: michael watson (IAH-C) > > Hi > > OK, final stretch now, thank you to everyone who has helped! > > (hopefully) final question - what does R CMD build actually do that > tar/gzip and WinZip do not? > > I have successfully used R CMD build to create a .tar.gz version of my > package, which installs well and works under Linux - hurray! > I naively > thought that all I had to do now was create a .zip version (using > something like WinZip) and it would work on Windows too - wrong! > > On Windows I get: > > Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning messages: > 1: error -1 in extracting from zip file > 2: cannot open file `coXpress/DESCRIPTION' > > I didn't run R CMD build on Windows because I don't have "suitable > versions of Unix tools including make, sh, rm, sed, > awk,mkdir, echo, cp > and cat; we have packaged a set at > http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/tools.zip.";. Do I > really have > to install all of these on my Windows machine to build a package? > > Asked another way - I have a linux .tar.gz file which works, how do I > make a windows version? > > Thanks in advance! > > Mick > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
