[R] updating a local package

[Uwe Ligges]

Essential infrastructure work has been done in the meantime, both ion 
the documentation system and on the location of binaries.
That means you really need to reinstall the package and hence you need 
to start with a source package.
Details for installing from source are given in the manual "R 
Installation and Administartion".

Uwe Ligges


On 28.10.2010 11:23, Robert Kinley wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I have inherited a package which was created before release 2.10 and I
> need to have it working in release 2.12
>
> There is a folder containing the Man, Data and R subfolders, and the
> description
> file, and there is also the corresponding zip file.
>
> I can install the package from the zip file, but when I try to load it  I
> get the message :-
>          Error: package   was built before R 2.10.0: please re-install it
>
> If I try to rebuild the zip file using
>          C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.0\bin\R.exe CMD build my.library.folder
>
> I get pages and pages of warnings and error messages, many of which seem
> to  refer
> to the Man folder.
>
> Having never built a formal package before, I'm a bit  stuck for what to
> do next ...
>
> Presumably the expected structure of the folders has changed but the
> documentation
> on packages looks scary - can anyone suggest the best way forward - even
> if
> its only RTFM !
>
>          thanks          Bob Kinley
>
>
>
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