[R] Porting "unmaintained" packages to post R 2.10.0 era

[Ben Rhelp]

----- Original Message ----

> From: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> To: Ben Rhelp <benrhelp at yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Sent: Thu, 16 June, 2011 14:38:12
> Subject: Re: [R] Porting "unmaintained" packages to post R 2.10.0 era
> 
[...]
> >
> > What about "--binary is  deprecated"? What is the correct way now?
> 
> See the manual. It tells  you
> 
> R CMD INSTALL --build
> 
> will generate a binary  package.

Hi Uwe,

Thanks a lot for this. I hope Google will rank your reply because it seems I am 
not the only one to make this mistake:

http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~kbroman/Rintro/Rwinpack.html
http://robjhyndman.com/researchtips/building-r-packages-for-windows/
http://stevemosher.wordpress.com/step-10-build/

Cheers,

Ben