[Rd] Re: [R] Building a package under WIN2000 / rw2.0

[Uwe Ligges]

BXC (Bendix Carstensen) wrote:
> I have an odd problem in building a package with only R-code in it.
> I have a package mainly used by myself which I last  build under R
> 1.9.0.
> The operation system is Win2000 5.00.2195, Service Pack 3
> 
> When I do:
> 
> c:\stat\r\rw2000\bin\Rcmd install --docs=normal --build
> --library=c:\stat\R\bxc\library c:\stat\R\bxc\library.sources\xx

[moved to R-devel]

Works with forward slashes as follows:

  c:\stat\r\rw2000\bin\Rcmd install --docs=normal --build
  --library=c:\stat\R\bxc\library c:/stat/R/bxc/library.sources/xx

The seems to be related with the more recent threads
"Re: [Rd] wishlist: better error message in R CMD check"
"[Rd] creating a package without lazy loading"
on R-devel.

I'll try to debug.

Uwe Ligges



> then after updating help pages I get:
> 
>   preparing package xx for lazy loading
>   Error in tools:::.read_description(file) :
>           file '/DESCRIPTION' does not exist
>   Execution halted
>   make: *** [lazyload] Error 1
>   *** Installation of xx failed ***
> 
> (Yes, I have a DESCRIPTION file).
> Having made a few changes here and there in some of the functions I
> transferred
> them one at a time to a new folder and tried to build it there.
> 
> The probelm seems to be that once I exceed 5 functions in the package
> the above
> error appears, with 5 or fewer functions it works OK.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Bendix Carstensen
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