[Rd] r cmd build

[Gabor Grothendieck]

The Writing Extensions manual says to do an R CMD build for releases
to CRAN.  That's what I have been doing and that does produce a .tar.gz
file even though I get a message about hhc.exe.  Is that what I should continue
to do and ignore the message or should I be using one of the alternatives
you mention to create a .tar.gz release file on Vista?

On 9/16/07, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 15/09/2007 10:27 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > On Windows Vista hhc.exe is not available.  One can do this on an
> > install:
> >
> > rcmd install --docs=normal myPackage
> >
> > to avoid the message about hhc.exe; however,
> > "rcmd build" does not appear to support --docs=normal so one cannot
> > do a build without getting a message about hhc.exe (although the build
> > still proceeds).
>
> Are you talking about "build --binary"?  I recommend using "install
> --build" instead.  AFAIK a non-binary build doesn't make any use of hhc.
>
> Another way to do an install or build without getting that message is to
> indicate in src/gnuwin32/MkRules that you don't want to build CHM help.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>