[R] Creating packages in 1.8

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On what OS?

It's easy on Windows: choose the directory in the installer.

It's easy for a source build on Unix: set --prefix at configure time.

It's easy for rpms if you know how.

I suspect it is easy for .debs.

And there is no R 1.8: it is R 1.8.0.

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Crispin Miller wrote:

> Hi,
> Firstly, sorry to reply to my own posting... Also for not having done
> more trawling before I sent the original message...
> 
> The problems we are having were down to R being installed in a different
> directory to the default one (for various sysadmin reasons)...
> 
> We've successfully got R runnning on a single machine in the default
> directories where it likes to be - it is happy, and 'R CMD check' works
> fine... :-)
> 
> Alas, this is not a good long-term solution for us can anyone help us
> work out the easiest way to get R installed in another directory
> structure instead of  the default ones? 
> 
> I appreciate that very similar questions have been asked before, but I
> suspect that 1.8 is slightly different (since R CMD check ... worked
> fine for us in 1.7.1).
> 
> 
> Crispin
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Crispin Miller 
> > Sent: 31 October 2003 14:51
> > To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: [R] Creating packages in 1.8
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I decided to upgrade to 1.8 today... :-)
> > Anyway, we are writing our own package that is dependent on a 
> > bioconductor library - 'affy'. I've checked and when I fire 
> > up R, library(affy) behaves as expected... so it all seems to 
> > be installed and OK...
> > 
> > In the DESCRIPTION file in my package source I have the line:
> > 
> > Depends: affy
> > 
> > When I run R CMD check simpleaffy
> > 
> > I get to:
> > 
> > ...
> > * checking package dependencies ... ERROR
> > Packages required but not available:
> >   WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
> > Prompt >
> > 
> > Any ideas what is going on - as far as I can see the only 
> > dependency is to affy which is there and OK... I get no list 
> > of packages that are missing :-(
> > 
> > I'm assuming the warning comes because I have R_ENVIRON 
> > pointing to a .Renviron file in my home directory...
> > 
> > Any help would be much appreciated!
> > Cheers,
> > Crispin
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