[R] Building own packages on Windows 2000!

[Liaw, Andy]

At install time, you need to select "source package installation files".
Then read the `readme.packages' file, which tells you what you'll need,
which explicitly includes Perl.

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Witold Eryk Wolski [mailto:wolski at molgen.mpg.de]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:09 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Building own packages on Windows 2000!
> 
> 
> Hi!
> I encountered some things trying to build own packages under Windows 
> 2000 for which i found no answer in the documentation.
> First.
> 
> 1. I do not found the rcmd.exe in the bin directory of R_HOME.
>  I installed R using the setup.exe
> 2. I updated the R intatllation with one of the zip files. 
> (rw1041sp.zip)
> now i had the rcmd.exe in the bin.
> 3. I do not found any hint in the docu that perl is needed.
> 4. I even do not found any hint that there are shared modules 
> and that i 
> can be necessary to add an
> PERL5LIB path to the enviroment variables to use them and i 
> still do not 
> know if it is necessary.
> 
> 
> Anyway, after few ours and some print statements i figured out that
> system("tar chXf $exclude $filepath $pkgname"); in the build 
> file called 
> with
> rcmd build
> causes:
> 
> C:\prog\R\rw1041\myfiles\test>rcmd build --use-zip masspec
> 1
> Its Windows MAN
> ** Options  --use-zip for --binary ignored
> * checking for file `masspec/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing `masspec':
> * cleaning src
> its ok
> * checking whether `INDEX' is up-to-date ... OK
> * checking whether `data/00Index' is up-to-date ... OK
> * removing junk files
> * building `masspec_0.1.tar.gz'
> something wrong!!!!!!!!!!
> tar: Unknown option "-hXf"
> Usage: tar -{crtux}[lpmovwzU[0-7[lmh]]] [-b blocks]
>            [-f tarfile] [-V volpattern] [file [-C pathname] ...]
> masspec_0.1.tar: No such file or directory
> 
> even i have the tools for windows installed.
> 
> 
> I really want to build and install my own packages! I am out 
> of ideas now!
> Can anyone give me a hint?
> 
> 
> (is there a mailing list for R-Ms Windows?)
> Sinerely Eryk
> 
> 
> 
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