[R] Compiled Rcmdr Plugin package (zip) has no etc/menus.txt

[John Fox]

Dear Tobias,

To create the etc subdirectory in the installed package, or in the Windows
binary package .zip file, you need an inst/etc subdirectory in the package
source tree. That is, etc should be a subdirectory of inst. This isn't
peculiar to Rcmdr plug-in packages but is true of any package that uses a
non-standard subdirectory or file. See the Writing R Extensions manual for
details.

I hope this helps,
 John



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> Behalf Of Tobias Schoch
> Sent: September-23-09 8:54 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Compiled Rcmdr Plugin package (zip) has no etc/menus.txt
> 
> 
> Dear Rcmdr users,
> I use R-2.9.2, Rcmdr 1.5-1 and the latest Rtools bundle (and the html help
> workshop) under Windows XP. I wrote a RcmdrPlugin for some important
> functions of Thomas Lumley's "survey" package.
> 
> Problem: Package compilation works without displaying any errors. That is
> 1) "R CMD build ..." works fine.
> 
> 2) "R CMD INSTALL --build..." generates the zip-file (without error
> message), but the folder "etc" and the "menus.txt" are missing in the zip.
> Also the installed package in R-2.9.2/library/... does not contain "etc"
and
> "menus.txt". Thus, I am a bit confused, because the contents of the "etc"
> folder should actually be included into the final package (as pointed out
in
> "writing R extensions").
> 
> Adding /etc/menus.txt to the zip-files fails since the MD5 (obviously) is
> not correct any more. How can I generate packages as zip-files including
the
> Rcmdr-menu-structure.
> 
> Thanks
> Tobias
> 
> 
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