[R] Seeking help in Package development

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nipesh Bajaj <bajaj141003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gabor, can you be more detail on step 01? Is that not the correct
> path for R.exe? But I found it there.
>
> When I ran R CMD build MyPackage then actually got these warnings:
> cygwin warnings:
> MS-DOS style path detected: c:/Program Files/R/R-2.12.1/bin/Mypackage_1.0.tar
> prefered POSIX equivalent is /cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/R/R-2.12.1/bin/MyPackage_1.0.tar
> CYGWIN environment variable option "nodesfilewarning" turns off this
> warning.............
>
> Is this warning something to do with that error?
>
> Sorry for stretching this thread so long. However I am not really
> expert in programming therefore find really hard on understanding
> different terminology given in different documentation.
>
> Thanks,
>

Don't put your package in the R tree.

You can ignore those warnings.  If you had used R.bat then as in my
original instructions you wouldn't have gotten those warnings in the
first place.

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