[R] trouble with R CMD INSTALL for building my own library

jonathan_li@agilent.com jonathan_li at agilent.com
Wed Dec 5 21:38:11 CET 2001


Hi all,

Problem solved!

Thanks to a suggestion by Robert Gentleman, I realized that there may be
something that makes R think that mylib is a binary rather than source
package. I downloaded Brian Ripley's tree source package and basically
copied each directory. As it turns out, I have not put in a mylib/man
subdirectory (I thought I could add it any time later.) and R was then
tricked to believe that mylib is a binary! Once I add an empty mylib/man
subdirectory, things become normal with compiling etc. Timothy, I think that
your problem is likely to be the same source then. 

Regards,
Jonathan


-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Hornik [mailto:Kurt.Hornik at ci.tuwien.ac.at]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:22 PM
To: Jonathan Li
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] trouble with R CMD INSTALL for building my own library


>>>>> Jonathan Li writes:

> Hi,

> I have built a library that consists of a piece of C code and some R
> functions.  To build it into a library that I can load using library()
> command, I have followed "Writing R Extensions" and made
> sub-directories such as mylib/R and mylib/src.

It actually is 'package' and not 'library'.

> But when I run R CMD INSTALL mylib, nothing seems to be happening with
> src directory, i.e., no C compiling. I have probably missed some key
> steps. But after reading very carefully "Writing R Extension", I
> conclude that I don't need to write my own Makefile in src since R CMD
> INSTALL will use the default in /usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf Here is a copy
> of Makeconf file. In addition, R CMD check and R CMD build all ran
> without running "make". Is this the way it is supposed to be?  (no
> error messages encountered).

Sounds strange.  You really have

	mylib/src/foo.c

(note the extension!) and nothing happens?

-k
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