[R] Porting "unmaintained" packages to post R 2.10.0 era

[Uwe Ligges]

On 17.06.2011 12:04, Ben Rhelp wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
>
>> From: Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
>> To: Ben Rhelp<benrhelp at yahoo.co.uk>
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Sent: Thu, 16 June, 2011 14:38:12
>> Subject: Re: [R] Porting "unmaintained" packages to post R 2.10.0 era
>>
> [...]
>>>
>>> What about "--binary is  deprecated"? What is the correct way now?
>>
>> See the manual. It tells  you
>>
>> R CMD INSTALL --build
>>
>> will generate a binary  package.
>
> Hi Uwe,
>
> Thanks a lot for this. I hope Google will rank your reply because it seems I am
> not the only one to make this mistake:
>
> http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~kbroman/Rintro/Rwinpack.html
> http://robjhyndman.com/researchtips/building-r-packages-for-windows/
> http://stevemosher.wordpress.com/step-10-build/


We know, and we always ask people to read the recent official manuals 
where this is mentioned rather than any outdated material.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


> Cheers,
>
> Ben