[R] Two problems building a package

[Uwe Ligges]

Wollenberg, Kurt R wrote:

> Hello all:
> 
> I have written a few R scripts and am trying to turn them into a package for
> submission to CRAN. All of these scripts are R code only, no C or C++ or
> anything else. I'm working with R 2.0.1 running on a Windows XP machine. So
> far running ">rcmd install --build --docs=normal mypkge" seems to work
> (i.e., the library "mypkge" is installed in R\rw2001\library and the library
> loads and the scripts do what I have written them to do). 

You are talking about your *package* and your *functions*, I think.


> While this is all well and good I have two (hopefully small) problems.
> First, running ">rcmd check mypkge" on R\rw2001\bin\mypkg (

Does not need to be in ...../bin


> not
> R\rw2001\library\mtpkge) returns the error "\bin\mypkge is not a source
> package." 

So your source package is broken somehow. Please check the DESCRIPTION file.


> Have I got something very wrong or am I misunderstanding which
> directory contains the "source" package? Second, I've included some
> equations in the Details section of one of my .Rd files and would like to
> check that I've coded them correctly in the documentation before submission.
> So far, my html and latex docs don't contain a details section, even though
> they contain all other recent changes. My detail section looks like this:
> 
> \details{blah blah blah 
>     \deqn{blah = Blah}{%
>       blah = Blah}
> where 	\eqn{blah}{%blah} = frequency of \emph{b} in Blah.


The "%" above seem to be dangerous (without having tested) ...

Uwe Ligges

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> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kurt Wollenberg, PhD
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