[R] building R-package under windows - error - in options("deafultPackages") was not found

[Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Uwe Ligges wrote:

>
>
> Daniel Berg wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have been building R packages under windows on my old pc, successfully.
>> Now I have bought a new pc, still running windows, and I am trying to build
>> the same R packages as before, but now without the same success. I have
>> installed the Rtools, perl, mingw and added them to the environment
>> variables.
>> I am running Windows XP Professional on a Thinkpad T60. I have installed
>> R-2.4.1, ActivePerl 5.8.8 Build 819, MinGW 5.1.2, and I downloaded
>> tools.zipfrom
>> http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools.
>>
>> I receive the following error message:
>>
>> $ Rcmd build --binary copulaGOF/
>> * checking for file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>> * preparing 'copulaGOF' :
>> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR
>
> Looks like something is wrong with your DESCRIPTION file. Can you send
> us the contents of that file?

I think rather with his R: the message below says 'During startup', and 
indicates that one of the default packages is missing.  That would mean 
that it has not got to running the code to look at DESCRIPTION.

>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>> During startup - Warning messages :
>> ' in: library(package, lib.loc = lob.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical =
>> TRUE,
>>  in options("defaultPackages") was not found
>>
>> In my package I have included a zzz.r file that contains the following,
>> perhaps this is the cause?
>> .First.lib <-function (lib, pkg)   {
>>     library(adapt)
>>     library(copula)
>>     library(fBasics)
>>     library(mvtnorm)
>>     runif(1)
>>     library.dynam("mypackage", package="mypackage")
>> }
>>
>> Any help or comments is most welcome. Thank you.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Daniel Berg
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>> danielberg.no
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