[R] Help making a simple R code only package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Also, less incidentally, it would have worked in the current version of R, 
but it seems 1.8.0 was used -- an update of R would be a good idea.

On Mon, 3 May 2004, Jason Turner wrote:

> Stephen Pavlik wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am new to R and I am trying to figure out how to build and install a
> > package with nothing but R code inside. I have run 'package.skeleton' to
> > get the basic structure. 
> > 
> > When I run 'Rcmd INSTALL testPackage' I get this error message:
> > 
> > make: *** No rule to make target `Files/R/rw1080'.  Stop.
> > *** Installation of testPackage failed ***
> > 
> 
> Spaces aren't allowed in the directory where you're building the 
> package.  Create a separate directory with no spaces in the name, and 
> build there (e.g. c:\MyPackages\...).  It says so in README.packages.
> 
> Interestingly, you missed this appearing on the list by about 12 hours.

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