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

[Uwe Ligges]

Given the lines after "Description:" have been wrapped during e-mail 
transfer and are in one line in your DESCRIPTION file, here are two guesses:
- You have some additional library added that contains a broken 
installation of some base package?
- You have declared some non-existing default packages in some Rprofile 
or whereever that are not existing?

Anyway, you might want to send the whole package in a private message.

Uwe Ligges



Daniel Berg wrote:
> I have tried to uninstall R-2.4.1 and reinstall it but I still get the same
> error message. I have also tried reinstalling both mingw and perl, both 
> with
> no effect.
> 
> My DESCRIPTION file:
> 
> Package: copulaGOF
> Type: Package
> Title: Copula simulation, estimation and goodness-of-fit
> Version: 1.5
> Date: 2006-12-15
> Author: Daniel Berg, Henrik Bakken (Norwegian Computing Center)
> Depends: adapt, copula, fBasics, mnormt, mvtnorm, scatterplot3d, sn
> Maintainer: Daniel Berg <daniel at danielberg.no>
> URL: www.danielberg.no
> Description: Functions for copula simulation, estimation and 
> goodness-of-fit
> testing. Includes functions for simulating and estimating higher 
> dimensional
> distributions.
> License: GPL Version 2 or later, GSL-1.6
> 
> and the error message read:
> $ Rcmd build --binary copulaGOF
> * checking for file 'copulaGOF/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'copulaGOF' :
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR
> During startup - Warning messages:
> '  in: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical =
> TRUE,
> in options("defaultPackages") was not found
> 
> I don't have access to binaries of older versions of R now but will try 
> with
> older version after the holidays to see if this has an effect.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> On 12/23/06, Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> >> -----
>> >> danielberg.no
>> >>
>> >>      [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>> >>
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>> >
>>
>> -- 
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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