[R] trouble loading example package

[Benilton Carvalho]

How do you build your packages?

have you tried

R CMD build --binary mypkg

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On Nov 16, 2006, at 12:32 AM, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:

> Greetings:
>
> I've installed Rtools, MikTeX, perl, minGW, and HTML Help Workshop,  
> and have
> succeeded in making, checking (using R CMD check mypkg) then  
> building the
> simple example package.skeleton(list=c("f","g","d","e"),  
> name="mypkg")  R
> CMD build mypkg produces a tarball.  I don't know how to get a zip  
> file.
>
> But when I try to Install package(s) from local zip files, I get  
> this error
> message:
>
> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: error -1 in extracting from zip file
> 2: cannot open compressed file 'mypkg/DESCRIPTION'
>
> But when I click on that file in the tarball it opens and shows me  
> what I
> expected.
>
> I had hoped that I had weathered the hard part - building the  
> package - but
> I still need some help:
>
> 1) How do I get a zipped file, rather than a tarball,
> 2) How do I install what I've built?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Charles Annis, P.E.
>
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