[R] Installing packages from source code

[Uwe Ligges]

huan.huang at uk.bnpparibas.com wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> 
> 
> I have trouble in installing packages from source code by following Section
>        5.1 in manual R-admin.pdf . I am using R 2.1.0 and Win NT.
> 
> 
> 
> Following the Windows toolset section in the manual, I download the tool
>        set package from: http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/tools.zip
>        and unzip under C:\tools
> 
> I also downloaded Perl (Windows Port) and installed it.
> 
> I downloaded source code of abind package (abind.1.1-0.tar.gz) to C:\, as
>        an example.
> 
> 
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> 1. I tried to install abind package in Rgui by typing in:
> install.packages(repos=NULL, pkgs='c:/abind.1.1-0.tar.gz', type='source', lib = 'c:/program files/r/rw2010/library/')
> Warning message:
> installation of package 'c:/abind.1.1-0.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(repos = NULL, pkgs = "c:/abind.1.1-0.tar.gz",

Underscore in package name: abind_1.1-0.tar.gz

You might have a 00lock file in your library dir now that you have to 
delete before further processing .....



> 
> 2. I then tried to install abind package in CMD:
> r cmd install -l "c:/progra~1/r/rw2010/library/" "c:/abind.1.1-0.tar.gz"

a) Capitalization!!!
b) underscore in package name!!!


Hence the following sghould be sufficient (called from c:\):

   R CMD INSTALL abind_1.1-0.tar.gz

or full:

   R CMD INSTALL -l c:/progra~1/r/rw2010/library/ c:/abind.1.1-0.tar.gz


Uwe Ligges


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> The purpose of installing package from source code is that I hope it can create those rds files in meta directory automatically.
> I wonder if I miss anything here. Can anyone help me out please?
> Thanks alot,
> Huan
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