[R] An easy question on package building/installation

[Jeff Newmiller]

You appear to be entering that command at the R prompt when it is intended to be entered at the operating system command line. There is a whole document "Writing R Extensions" that you really should be reading no matter what IDE you are using.

Also, details of using RStudio are off topic here, but there is a button/menu item that will execute these commands for you in the GUI of that program. 
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On March 18, 2015 1:01:18 AM PDT, jpm miao <miaojpm at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>   I try to build a package myself on RStudio. The command
>"package.skeleton" is successfully run, but the command "build" is not.
>In
>my case, the username and the package name are both "abcd".
>
>   Error message:
>
>> R CMD build abcd
>
>Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
>
>>
>
>    Could someone help me to write a correct "build" command?
>
>    Thanks! Full log:
>
>
>> setwd("D:/0B/R/pkg-abcd")
>
>> setwd("D:/0B/R/pkg-abcd")
>
>> package.skeleton(name="abcd")
>
>Creating directories ...
>
>Creating DESCRIPTION ...
>
>Creating NAMESPACE ...
>
>Creating Read-and-delete-me ...
>
>Saving functions and data ...
>
>Making help files ...
>
>Done.
>
>Further steps are described in './abcd/Read-and-delete-me'.
>
>  > setwd("D:/0B/R/pkg-abcd/abcd")
>
>> dir()
>
>[1] "data"               "DESCRIPTION"        "man"
>
>[4] "NAMESPACE"          "R"                  "Read-and-delete-me"
>
>>
>
>
>
>> .libPaths()
>
>[1] "C:/Users/abcd/Documents/R/win-library/3.0"
>
>[2] "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library"
>
>>
>
>
>
>> R CMD build abcd
>
>Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
>
>> R CMD build C:\Users\abcd\Documents\R\win-library\3.0
>
>Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
>
>> R CMD INSTALL -1 C:/Users/abcd/Documents/R/win-library/3.0 abcd
>
>Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD
>
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