[R] writing R extensions

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

It sounds like you simply uncompressed your .tar.gz file and then zipped 
it up. If so, it should not work correctly.

You need to compile it for windows. Try something like
	
	Rcmd build --binary myRpackageDir

and you may need to include "--force" option in the command above.

Also check to make sure the R version in the machine you compile on and 
the machine you install on are recent versions.

Regards, Adai



micha_ wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on a package and got some problems. After I've done R CMD check
> and build I get the package.tar.gz which I can install under Linux without
> any problems. Now I wanted to have a Windows version. I heard that I only
> have to zip the package folder. That worked once, but now the package can't
> be installed. I got 1 warning while I did R CMD check, and this was 1 not
> documented dataset, but it was also already in the old version that worked.
> So is there anything I have to take care of for the Windows version? Or is
> there a way to check what happend. The error message in Windows is this:
> 
>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> updating HTML package descriptions
>> library(mask)
> Error in library(mask) :
>   'mask' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
> 
> Can anybody help me with this?
> 
> Michael