[R] building zipped package with windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Jannis wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> i would like to build an own package using:
>
> R CMD INSTALL --html --build --auto-zip -l folder spectral.methods
>
> it seems to succeed as I get the following messages:
>
> * installing *source* package 'spectral.methods' ...
> ** R
> ** data
> Warning: empty 'data' directory
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
>  converting help for package 'spectral.methods'
>    finding HTML links ... done
>    filter.tseries.SSA                      html
>    gapfilling.SSA                          html
>    spectral.methods-package                html
> ** building package indices ...
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> * MD5 sums
> packaged installation of 'spectral.methods' as spectral.methods_1.0.zip
>
> * DONE (spectral.methods)
>
> I can also load the package using library('spectral.methods') and 
> everything seems to work fine. The way I understand the R CMD 
> INSTALL command, however, lets me to expect that a zipped directory 
> is created which does not happen.

Well, it said it was:

> packaged installation of 'spectral.methods' as spectral.methods_1.0.zip

and that is how all the CRAN binaries are made.  So look for a file of 
that name.

> Do I need to zip the folder 
> independently? Do I need to install some sort of zipping program?

You did, in Rtools ....

> I have installed rtools.
>
> Cheers
> Jannis

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