[R] Adding .R to source file keeps R from reading it?

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On 9/21/06, John Tillinghast <tilling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm updating the LMGene package from Bioconductor. "Writing R Extensions"
> suggests
> that all source files (the ones in the R directory) have a .R ending, so I
> added it to the (one) source file.
> The next time I installed and ran R, R didn't understand any of the
> functions.
> I tried various things and eventually went back to the file and dropped the
> .R ending, installed, ran R. It worked!
> For purposes of distributing the package, do I want to leave the name
> without the .R, or add the .R and change something else?

I'm guessing that the "source" you are working on has been obtained by
unzipping the windows binary zip file. Despite appearances, that is
not the source code. For the proper source code, download the file
that's marked as source. In this case,

http://bioconductor.org/packages/1.8/bioc/html/LMGene.html

clearly labels the following as "Source" (and the corresponding zip
file as "Windows Binary")

http://bioconductor.org/packages/1.8/bioc/src/contrib/LMGene_1.0.0.tar.gz

This likely answers your other question as well.

-Deepayan