[R] R-package install

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Although your topic is `package install', you are running `check'. Please
do run `Rcmd install' to install a package and check it (both the install
script and the package) is working before attempting to check the package.  
I expect you will still get an error message, but it may be more
informative.

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Arnab mukherji wrote:

> Hi
> 
>   I have been trying to get the R Extention supportware going for a

That's not a term I recognize. You appear to be using Windows, so have you
read the rw-FAQ and the readme.packages files?  What version of R are you
using and did you install the component for making source packages
(perhaps the most likely cause of the error message is that it is missing
in whole or in part)?

> while now and have been running to an error I cannot figure out. I am
> hoping someone here will recognize whats going on and what i may be
> messing up.
> 
> After installing all the components - Rtools, Active Perl, and minGW I created the file structure using package.skeleton(name = "test") with only the functions i want in the package in memory. I subsequently filled in the relevant details in Description and tried to call Rcmd check.
> 
> C:\rpacks>Rcmd check test
> * checking for working latex ... OK
> * using log directory 'C:/rpacks/test.Rcheck'
> * checking for file 'test/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * checking if this is a source package ... OK
>  
> 
> make: *** No rule to make target `pkg-test'.  Stop.
> *** Installation of test failed ***

At this point you can give up, as that is a fatal error (not sure why it 
is not a fatal error in the check script).

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