[Bioc-devel] creating win package from linux

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi John,

Yeah. You can't just zip packages up and then use the installer to 
install. You have to actually build the packages, even on Windows. That 
website must not have been updated for years now. First go here:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#The-Windows-toolset

All you need to do is get the Rtools.exe from Duncan Murdoch's site, run 
it, allow it to set your PATH and then you should be able to install the 
package similarly to how you did on Linux.

rcmd build <path_to_package_with_no_spaces_and_forward_slashes>

e.g. rcmd build c:/docume~1/john/desktop/ixe
if the package is on your desktop and your username is 'john'

rcmd check ixe.tar.gz
rcmd install ixe.tar.gz

Having things like the HTML help workshop and LaTeX are nice but not 
necessary. Having the Inno Setup Installer is only necessary if you want 
to build R from source and create an installer.

Best,

Jim




John Lande wrote:
> dear all,
> 
> I am creating a package for my function in linux for both windows and linux.
> with linux I have no problems,
> but when I try to install the package under win I retrive this error
> 
> 
>> install.packages("ixe.zip", repos=NULL)
> updating HTML package descriptions
>> library(myfun)
> Error in library(myfun) :
>   'myfun' is not a alid packager -- installed < 2.0.0?
> 
> 
> I followed this guide:
> http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maman/computerstuff/Rhelp/Rpackages.html
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
> i386-pc-mingw32
> 
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=Italian_Italy.1252;LC_CTYPE=Italian_Italy.1252;LC_MONETARY=Italian_Italy.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Italian_Italy.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] rcompgen_0.1-17 tools_2.6.2
> 
> bye
> john
> 
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