[Rd] Building packages on Windows fails

[Peter Kleiweg]

Duncan Murdoch schreef op de 6e dag van de wijnmaand van het jaar 2005:

> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Peter Kleiweg wrote:
> 
> > 
> > What has changed in R for Windows from version 1.7.1 to
> > 2.2.0 that won't allow me to build binary packages?
> 
> Many things have changed; I don't know which is causing the failure you see.
> One change is that instructions are now collected in the Installation and
> Administration manual. Try following the setup instructions there and see if
> it still fails.

I can't find anything on building packages for Windows in that 
manual.

I did find a solution to the problem. On a Linux install, each 
package has a file CONTENTS. These are missing from the Windows 
install. I copied those files from my Linux install to my 
Windows install, and then I could build my own package. So I 
guess, these CONTENTS files should be included in the Windows 
install.

I got another error message when I remove a package, but I 
couldn't see what effect this error has. When I run:

    d:\>Rcmd REMOVE iL04

The package gets removed, but I get:

    make: *** No rule to make target `indices'.  Stop.


> > ---------- Making package iL04 ------------
> >  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
> >  installing R files
> >  installing demos
> >  installing data files
> >  installing man source files
> >  installing indices
> > cat: d:/R-2.2.0/library/*/CONTENTS: No such file or directory
> > make[2]: *** [indices] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> > make: *** [pkg-iL04] Error 2
> > *** Installation of iL04 failed ***




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Peter Kleiweg
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