[R] write a library under 2.0.1 version

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 marta at statistica.it wrote:

> Hi there,
> I had written a library under R 1.9.0 and now I would like to import that
> library under R 2.0.1
> Apparently it does not work; I can install the package, but when I try to
> read it the error is the following:
>
> Error in library(compvar) : 'compvar' is not a valid package -- installed
> < 2.0.0
>
> I have checked other libraries in R 2.0.1 and I noticed that there is a
> new folders (Meta) that were not present under R 1.9.1 as well as a file
> (MD5). Moreover, under R folders there are files with .rdx and .rdb
> extensions that were not present before.
>
> I was wondering how I can built these files for the library to be
> importable under 2.0.1 version.

You install the package with R CMD INSTALL, just as was documented for 
1.9.1.  See the `Writing R Extensions' and `R Installation and 
Administration' manuals.

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