Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch <at> pair.com> writes: : : On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 05:40:33 +0000 (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck : <ggrothendieck <at> myway.com> wrote: : : >Roger, : > : >A list of the steps referred to below would be of interest. : >I realize the extensions manual exists but what I was : >thinking of was just a list of the minimal steps you take : >when you create a package for yourself. : : There's really just one step: call package.skeleton(). : : Duncan Murdoch
I was hoping for something that really was that simple but I tried and so far it seems that I also must also 1. when I run skeleton.package realize that I must use the arg path = "library" The example that is shown there appears to omit that. 2. download and install tools.zip, perl and windows help as listed at: http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ I got tripped up for quite a while when it could not find hhc.exe and I finally realized I had not downloaded the windows help distribution. 3. change the name of the package in the DESCRIPTION file -- it seems that the name = arg on package.skeleton did not change it for me. 4. make changes to the documentation files. I am just working on this now. Some default null documentation exists but it appears that it MUST be modified in order to get a working package so this makes another step. There maybe other things but its taken me several hours just to get this far and I do not yet have a functioning package. I think it would be handy if everything you need to know to actually create a minimal functioning package were in ?skeleton.package so that one could create a minimal functioning package without actually reading the extensions manual and then incrementally improve it. Right now there is quite a bit you have to know just to get to that point. I have so far looked at skeleton.package, readme.packages in rw1091, murdoch-suthertherland.com link mentioned above and the extensions manual so the startup to doing this is really a multi-step complex process. The skeleton.package idea actually seems quite nifty but I think it needs more work before one can really claim that its a one-step process to create the example package. ______________________________________________ [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
