[R] Creating packages

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, David Scott wrote:

>
> I am trying to create a package. I have succeeded in running R CMD check
> and R CMD build on an Intel box running Redhat. I would now like to
> build it on Windows as well. There is no compiled code in the package at
> all.
>
> I have downloaded the tools from Brian Ripley's Building R for Windows
> page, and installed Active Perl 5.8.0. I have set paths, and Rcmd and the
> tools are being found ok. I am having trouble though as follows:
>
> C:\dscott\Temp>ls
> hyperb  hyperbtemp
>
> C:\dscott\Temp>set TMPDIR=hyperbtemp

That needs to be an absolute path, as given in the example in
readme.packages.  I think you may mean c:/dscott/Temp/hyperbtemp.  The
code does not check that it is absolute (nor do I see how one can actually
ensure it).

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