[R] Problem with package development

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Nipesh Bajaj wrote:

> I have been struggling for last one hour but not yet any through.
>
> However again I recreate the package.skeleton and run R CMD check trial3
>
> Here are the errors:
>
> warning in dir.create(pkgoutdir, mode = "0755"):
> cannot create dir 'c:\Program files\R\R-2.13.0\bin\trial3.Rcheck',
> reason .................
> Error in printLog(Log, "", text, "\n"): object 'Log' not found
> Execution haulted
>
> Why I am getting this error? what is that "Log". I will really
> appreciate if somebody please help me to figure out.

R CMD check writes a (in your case) trial3.Rcheck directory, and in 
there in file 00check.log a copy of the log.  If it cannot create 
trial3.Rcheck it cannot write the log.

I would be surprised that even on Windows Vista the message was 
literally

> reason .................

but if it was, blame Microsoft for their error messages.
But
> cannot create dir 'c:\Program files\R\R-2.13.0\bin\trial3.Rcheck',

is clear enough.  You need to run 'R CMD check' in your user area.
In case you did this because that is where you though 'R' was, it is 
not the correct R.exe.   You may need to add

c:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.0\bin\i386

(assuming 32-bit R) to your path.

However, your use of e.g. 'Program files' suggests you are not 
accurately transmitting the messages you got.


>
> Thanks,
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Nipesh Bajaj <bajaj141003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Actually partly I followed. Here is the more details what I have done so far:
>>
>> 1. Edit the help file skeletons in 'man', possibly combining help
>> files for multiple functions.
>> I have modified with following:
>> \name{fn1}
>> \alias{fn1}
>>
>> \title{
>> A function.
>> }
>>
>> \description{
>> A function.
>> }
>>
>> \usage{
>> A function.
>> }
>>
>> \arguments{
>> A function.
>> }
>>
>> \value{
>> A function.
>> }
>>
>> \author{
>> \bold{Me}
>> \cr
>> \email{Me at me.com}
>> }
>>
>> 2. Edit the exports in 'NAMESPACE', and add necessary imports.
>> Actually I really do not know what I would do here. In the
>> corresponding file, only "exportPattern("^[[:alpha:]]+")" is there.
>> Therefore I put that unaltered.
>>
>> 3. Put any C/C++/Fortran code in 'src'.
>> I do not have any such code
>>
>> 4. If you have compiled code, add a useDynLib() directive to 'NAMESPACE'.
>> Again I do not know what to do, so ingored this step.
>>
>> 5. Run R CMD build to build the package tarball.
>> * Run R CMD check to check the package tarball.
>>
>> I did not follow this step exactly. What I done is, put 'trial3'
>> folder in R/R-2.13.0bin folder (after above modification), from the
>> R-working folder. Then just run R CMD INSTALL trial3. However
>> previously with this job, I could create package effectively. After
>> updating R to the current version my problem starts.
>>
>> Those are not sufficient?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 11-05-31 3:36 PM, Nipesh Bajaj wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all, I am having a strage problem while I was trying to build a
>>>> package. Here is my package skeleton:
>>>>
>>>> fn1<- Vectorize(function(x,y,z) {
>>>>                        return(x + y +z)
>>>>                }, vectorize.args = c("x"), SIMPLIFY = TRUE)
>>>> package.skeleton("trial3",namespace = TRUE)
>>>
>>> Did you follow the instructions that package.skeleton printed?
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
>>>>
>>>> However when I tun "R CMD INSTALL trial3" in CMD, the execution
>>>> stopped with following message:
>>>>
>>>> *** installing help indices
>>>> ** building package indices...
>>>> ** testing if install package can be loaded
>>>> Error: unexpected symbol in "tools:::test_load_package(.............."
>>>> Execution haulted
>>>> ERROR: loading failed.............
>>>>
>>>> I am using R 2.13.0 in Vista with latest Rtools installed. Can
>>>> somebody guide me where I have done wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
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