[R] problem building first package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You can ignore the message about latex (and 2.5.1 RC does not give it).

hhc is part of HTML Help Workshop: you either have not installed that or 
not put it in your path.

The settings in MkRules affect the types of help for building R, not 'R 
CMD INSTALL'.  If you only want text help you need to run

R CMD INSTALL --docs=txt removal_1.0.tar.gz


On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Richard Chandler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build a package from source for the first time. I'm
> using Windows XP. After R CMD INSTALL or R CMD check I get an error
> message that I don't understand. I've tried to follow the instrucions
> provided in the R Installation and Administration .pdf and the text
> file that comes with Rtools, but most of this is new to me and clearly
> I'm missing something. Here's what I've done:
>
> -Downloaded perl and Rtools and put them in my c directory
> -Used package.skeleton() to set up the package structure and put the
> package-to-be "removal" in C:\toBuild
> -I edited my path to :
> C:\Rtools\bin;C:\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\R-2.5.0\bin;...
> -I changed the following in the MkRules file:
> 1)HEADER=C:/Rtools/MinGW/include
> 2)HELPTYPES = -txt
> 3)WINHELP = NO
> 4)HEADER=C:/Rtools/MinGW/include
> 5)R_EXE=C:/R-2.5.0/bin/R.exe

The last two are for cross-building, not what you are doing.

> -Next, I opened up a command prompt and went to c:/toBuild
> -Then I ran: R CMD build removal. No problems.
> -Then I ran: R CMD INSTALL removal_1.0.tar.gz
> and got this:
> ---------------------
> installing to 'c:/R-2.5.0/library'
>
> latex: not found
> latex: not found
> latex: not found
>
> ---------- Making package removal ------------
> latex: not found
>  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
> latex: not found
> latex: not found
> latex: not found
>  installing R files
> latex: not found
>  installing data files
> latex: not found
>  installing man source files
>  installing indices
> latex: not found
> latex: not found
>  not zipping data
>  installing help
> >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'removal'
>     Formats: text chm
>  RemProbs                          text                           chm
>  add.error                         text                           chm
>  error.plot                        text                           chm
>  firstDetect                       text                           chm
>  funs                              text                           chm
>  path                              text                           chm
>  pll2                              text                           chm
>  remll2                            text                           chm
>  removal-package                   text                           chm
>  removal2                          text                           chm
>  var.d                             text                           chm
> hhc: not found
> cp: cannot stat `C:/toBuild/R.INSTALL.3064/removal/chm/removal.chm':
> No such fil
> e or directory
> make[1]: *** [chm-removal] Error 1
> make: *** [pkg-removal] Error 2
> *** Installation of removal failed ***
>
> Removing 'c:/R-2.5.0/library/removal'
> ---------------
>
> I don't know what hhc is. I'm guessing its trying to build the
> compiled help files even though I tried to ask for only text files. It
> also seems to want latex even though I read that it isn't necessary to
> build simple packages. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing
> wrong? Thanks.
>
> Richard
>
>
>

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