[R] R package building

[Doran, Harold]

Wow, this is going open a can :) OK, my comments below in no way
discount the enormous efforts of R core, but it is my experience.

Using Windows, the biggest obstacles are collecting all programs needed
to build the package and then structuring your OS path exactly (exactly)
as D. Murdoch says it needs to be.

As it turns out, once you collect these programs and fix your path, the
package build is actually quite simple. 

Second, I found building a vignette impossible, so I just drop in the
pdf file for distribution. I followed exact directions from the R News
article teaching how to do this and made sure everything was set up
correctly. After no success, I posted to R-Help where many told me
everything seemed to be set up properly, but still no success.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Angelos Markos
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 2:08 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] R package building
> 
> In a few days I'll give a talk on R package development and 
> my personal experience, at the 3rd Free / Libre / Open Source Software
> (FLOSS) Conference which will take place on May 27th & 28th 
> 2008, in the National Technical University of Athens, in Greece.
> 
> I would appreciate if you could share
> your thoughts with me; What are today's obstacles on R 
> package building, according to your opinion and personal experience.
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Angelos I. Markos
> Scientific Associate, Dpt of Exact Sciences, TEI of 
> Thessaloniki, GR "I'm not an outlier; I just haven't found my 
> distribution yet"
> 
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