[R] FW: How to create a new package?

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 13:20:22 CEST 2006


The minimum is to create a DESCRIPTION file, plus R and man
directories containing R code and .Rd files respectively.
It might help to run  Rcmd CHECK mypkg  before installation
and fix any problems it finds.

Googling for   creating R package   will locate some tutorials.


On 6/1/06, Rita Sousa <rita.sousa at ine.pt> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm a group of functions and I would like to create a package for load in R.
> I have created a directory named INE and a directory below that named R, for
> the files of R functions. A have created the files DESCRIPTION and INDEX in
> the INE directory. The installation from local zip files, in the R 2.3.0,
> results but to load the package I get an error like:
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> 'INE' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
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> I think that is necessary create a Meta directory with package.rds file, but
> I don't know make it! I have read the manual 'Writing R Extensions - 1.
> Creating R packages' but I don't understand the procedure...
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> Can I create it automatically?
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> Could you help me with this?
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> Thanks,
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