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

michael watson (IAH-C) michael.watson at bbsrc.ac.uk
Thu Jun 1 13:23:16 CEST 2006


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From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Gabor Grothendieck
Sent: 01 June 2006 12:20
To: Rita Sousa
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] FW: How to create a new package?

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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