[Bioc-devel] INDEX file is not generated automatically

James W. MacDonald jmacdon at med.umich.edu
Thu Sep 11 19:42:55 CEST 2008


Hi David,

David Rossell wrote:
> Hi there, I have a beginners question. I'm running into problems with
> generating the INDEX file automatically for the library gaga. At first I had
> a manually generated INDEX, but got the warning:
> 
> * checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... NO
> * use '--force' to overwrite the existing 'INDEX'
> 
> Then I deleted the INDEX file, as I thought it would be generated
> automatically when doing the R CMD BUILD. But this is not the case: if I
> untar the tar.gz created by R CMD BUILD there's no INDEX file.
> 
> Does anyone know how to work around this? Am I doing something wrong? I
> would greatly appreciate any input!

The only thing you are doing wrong is worrying about having an INDEX 
file in your package. This is automatically generated by R CMD INSTALL.

Best,

Jim


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