[R] trouble loading example package
Benilton Carvalho
bcarvalh at jhsph.edu
Thu Nov 16 06:38:27 CET 2006
How do you build your packages?
have you tried
R CMD build --binary mypkg
b
On Nov 16, 2006, at 12:32 AM, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I've installed Rtools, MikTeX, perl, minGW, and HTML Help Workshop,
> and have
> succeeded in making, checking (using R CMD check mypkg) then
> building the
> simple example package.skeleton(list=c("f","g","d","e"),
> name="mypkg") R
> CMD build mypkg produces a tarball. I don't know how to get a zip
> file.
>
> But when I try to Install package(s) from local zip files, I get
> this error
> message:
>
> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: error -1 in extracting from zip file
> 2: cannot open compressed file 'mypkg/DESCRIPTION'
>
> But when I click on that file in the tarball it opens and shows me
> what I
> expected.
>
> I had hoped that I had weathered the hard part - building the
> package - but
> I still need some help:
>
> 1) How do I get a zipped file, rather than a tarball,
> 2) How do I install what I've built?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Charles Annis, P.E.
>
> Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
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>
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