[R] really dumb question with building/creating a new package.

[Ben Tupper]

Hi,

Below is the help from a terminal session.  Note that you provide the directory name (where your package files are located).  I think in your case that would be '/Users/emhodgess/RcmdrPlugin.gstats'

ben at gale ~ $ R CMD build --help
Usage: R CMD build [options] pkgdirs

Build R packages from package sources in the directories specified by
‘pkgdirs’

Options:
  -h, --help		print short help message and exit
  -v, --version		print version info and exit

  --force               force removal of INDEX file
  --keep-empty-dirs     do not remove empty dirs
  --no-build-vignettes  do not (re)build package vignettes
  --no-manual           do not build the PDF manual even if \Sexprs are present
  --resave-data=        re-save data files as compactly as possible:
                        "no", "best", "gzip" (default)
  --resave-data         same as --resave-data=best
  --no-resave-data      same as --resave-data=no
  --compact-vignettes=  try to compact PDF files under inst/doc:
                        "no" (default), "qpdf", "gs", "gs+qpdf", "both"
  --compact-vignettes   same as --compact-vignettes=qpdf
  --md5                 add MD5 sums
### end


You want to explore Hadley Wickham's devtools package which makes package development a breeze.  More here... 

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/devtools/index.html

Cheers,
Ben


> On Aug 17, 2017, at 5:46 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I am creating a new RcmdrPlugin package.  However, I am getting some very
> odd messages.
> 
> R CMD build RcmdrPlugin.gstats_1.0.0
> 
> ERROR
> 
> cannot change to directory ‘RcmdrPlugin.gstats_1.0.0’
> 
> es-macbook-air:~ emhodgess$ R CMD check RcmdrPlugin.gstats_1.0.0
> 
> Warning: ‘RcmdrPlugin.gstats_1.0.0’ is neither a file nor directory,
> skipping
> 
> 
> es-macbook-air:~ emhodgess$ cd RcmdrPlugin.gstats/
> 
> es-macbook-air:RcmdrPlugin.gstats emhodgess$ pwd
> 
> /Users/emhodgess/RcmdrPlugin.gstats
> 
> es-macbook-air:RcmdrPlugin.gstats emhodgess$
> 
> 
> I can neither run R CMD build nor check.  Any help truly appreciated.  It's
> been ages since I've put together a package.
> 
> Thanks,
> Erin
> 
> 
> -- 
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Mathematical and Statistics
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
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