[R] updating a local package

[Uwe Ligges]

On 28.10.2010 12:26, Robert Kinley wrote:
> your advice to use    R CMD INSTALL source.library

It's a *package*, not a library.

Uwe


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> Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
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> Essential infrastructure work has been done in the meantime, both ion
> the documentation system and on the location of binaries.
> That means you really need to reinstall the package and hence you need
> to start with a source package.
> Details for installing from source are given in the manual "R
> Installation and Administartion".
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> Uwe Ligges
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> On 28.10.2010 11:23, Robert Kinley wrote:
>> Hi folks
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>> I have inherited a package which was created before release 2.10 and I
>> need to have it working in release 2.12
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>> There is a folder containing the Man, Data and R subfolders, and the
>> description
>> file, and there is also the corresponding zip file.
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>> I can install the package from the zip file, but when I try to load it I
>> get the message :-
>>           Error: package   was built before R 2.10.0: please re-install
> it
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>> If I try to rebuild the zip file using
>>           C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.0\bin\R.exe CMD build
> my.library.folder
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>> I get pages and pages of warnings and error messages, many of which seem
>> to  refer
>> to the Man folder.
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>> Having never built a formal package before, I'm a bit  stuck for what to
>> do next ...
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>> Presumably the expected structure of the folders has changed but the
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>> on packages looks scary - can anyone suggest the best way forward - even
>> if
>> its only RTFM !
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>>           thanks          Bob Kinley
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