[R] trouble loading example package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This appears to be about Windows, unstated!

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:

> Greetings:
>
> I've installed Rtools, MikTeX, perl, minGW, and HTML Help Workshop, and have
> succeeded in making, checking (using R CMD check mypkg) then building the
> simple example package.skeleton(list=c("f","g","d","e"), name="mypkg")  R
> CMD build mypkg produces a tarball.  I don't know how to get a zip file.
>
> But when I try to Install package(s) from local zip files, I get this error
> message:
>
> Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: error -1 in extracting from zip file
> 2: cannot open compressed file 'mypkg/DESCRIPTION'
>
> But when I click on that file in the tarball it opens and shows me what I
> expected.

But you don't have a zip file, which is what warning 1 has told you.

> I had hoped that I had weathered the hard part - building the package - but

You haven't: the interesting part is INSTALLing the package.

> I still need some help:
>
> 1) How do I get a zipped file, rather than a tarball,

R CMD INSTALL --build (preferably)
R CMD build --binary

> 2) How do I install what I've built?

R CMD INSTALL foo_1.0.0.tar.gz

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