[Rd] Making a windows packages with zip

[Uwe Ligges]

hadley wickham wrote:
> In the past I have been able to make windows packages (containing only
> R code) from my mac by simply zipping the installed package directory,
> eg.
> 
> R CMD install asmrsim
> cd ~/Library/R/library/
> zip -r9X asmrsim asmrsim
> 
> (using code copied from this list, from Duncan Murdoch, I think)
> 
> However, since 2.3.0, windows users now get the following error:
> 
> Error in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE) :
>        'asmrsim' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
> 
> 
> Obviously, the zip file was a hack in the first place, but is there
> any way to continue to make windows packages easily, or should I grit
> my teeth and install the cross compilation tool chain?


Either the latter or ask the Windows users to install the source package.

Uwe Ligges


> Thanks,
> 
> Hadley
> 
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