On 25 Jun 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > "Erik T. Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > I am writing as an administrator, not as an R user, so forgive me if I > > am not completely knowledgeable about R. > > > > I have a user who is creating an R package for windows from a Linux > > environment using the crossbuild environment by Jun Yan and A.J. > > Rossini. The packages she generated worked fine until she tried to > > install in R 1.9.1 for Windows. Now when she installs with > > > > install.packages( "Zelig", CRAN="http://gking.harvard.edu"; ) > > > > it results in two errors. > > > > First, it claims there are some missing files. When I look in the zip > > file, the files are there, but they coexist with other files that have > > the same name differing only in case. So there is both 'help/zelig' > > and 'help/Zelig', and this is causing R to think that one of them is > > missing. > > Yes, Windows will do that sort of thing to you. This stems from > the Zelig sources themselves, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ tar tvfz ~/Zelig_1.1-2.tar.gz | grep -i /zelig.Rd > -rw-r--r-- king/king 2905 2004-04-17 02:53:49 Zelig/man/Zelig.Rd > -rw-r--r-- king/king 2779 2004-06-18 23:13:21 Zelig/man/zelig.Rd > > but pretty obviously, that's a bad idea.... Incidentally, "R CMD > check" finds multiple problems with the package, but filenames > differing only in case is not among them, so it looks like the checker > could need improvement in that area.
Yes, although I believe it once did (and believed it still did when I replied). It will be added shortly. -- 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 PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
