Thanks to Jeff Laake for giving me a starting point. It appears my zipping should have been:
zip -r hello.zip hello essentially creating an outer folder having the package name inside the zip file. It still didn't quite work, with an error as follows: > utils:::menuInstallLocal() updating HTML package descriptions Warning message: no package 'file678418be' was found in: packageDescription(i, lib.loc = lib, field = "Title", encoding = "UTF-8") > The warning doesn't mean anything to me, but I suspect that because I zipped the linux files, it is possible that the unix end-of-line difference might pose a problem. I'll try doing the obvious conversion and will report back. As I wrote to Jeff, I'll be happy to document this experience once I understand it. For those of us interested in spreading R source with no C/Fortran (e.g. packages in their simplest form), this packaging should be fairly simple from first principles without having to rely on special tools. Regards, Jay ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html