[R] building zipped package with windows

[Jannis]

Sorry, it seems as this was my mistake. I did not set the PATH environment correctly. Now it works perfectly! As the status messages told me that a zip file was created I thought that rtools was integrated correctly.

Thanks for your help
Jannis

--- Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> schrieb am Mi, 23.2.2011:

> Von: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> Betreff: Re: [R] building zipped package with windows
> An: "Jannis" <bt_jannis at yahoo.de>
> CC: r-help at r-project.org
> Datum: Mittwoch, 23. Februar, 2011 13:37 Uhr
> 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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