On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Marsland, John wrote: > I can only find the option "--save" under install. > I'm using "Rcmd build --binary pkgName" on a Windows NT platform is there > anyway I can pass a similar directive? > > Is there any more detailed documentation for Rcmd beyond the "Writing R > Extensions" manual or should I look at the R source code?
First point: Rcmd is JUST A FRONT END like R CMD on Unix: what do you want detailed documentation on that for? It's *build* you want to be looking at. Second point: build --binary is one way to distribute a fully-debugged package, but INSTALL --build is a better way (as it allows more options). In either case you don't want to package up a non-functional package, do you? Third point: you can use install.R to provoke saving: that's described in the help for INSTALL. The moral is: use R CMD/Rcmd INSTALL to install a package, and once it is working, use R CMD/Rcmd build to make a source distribution or (on Windows) Rcmd INSTALL --build to make a binary distribution Unsurprisingly it is ?INSTALL that has help on the installation options. [I presume the answer to my question was that you were not using --save, but do please try to answer questions put to you by the helpers.] [...] -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
