Dear listers,

I have developped a set of functions that I would like to package on a 
Windows XP plateform for some friends (this would be more simple than to 
deliver them as a source text file without handy help). I am working under 
Windows XP.

Of course I have gone through the manual "Writing R extension" and try to 
sort out what a most simple "packaging" for beginner (without compiled 
code, etc...)  could be. I also read 
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/staff/ericg/RWinBuild.html It is very easy to build 
R packages in Windows (for Windows)...

Perl has been installed and works fine C:\Perl (source 
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html).
R Tools have been installed: C:\Perl\Rtools (source: 
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/tools.zip)
R tools functions delivered work fine (ex: ls, etc...)
R has been installed "at the root" of C:\ to avoid any blank in directory 
names: C:\R\rw2000
The PATH has been defined as environment variable in Windows XP as: 
C:\Perl\Rtools;C:\Perl\bin;...;C:\R\rw2000\bin

A trial package named "AnExample" has been prepared as indicated in the 
example of package.skeleton() of the library "utils" and put in C:\

from there I have typewritten:

C:\>RCMD build AnExample

With this result:

Can't open perl script "C:\R\rw2000/bin/build": No such file or directory

I could catch that indeed 'build.exe' does not exist in this directory 
(which is true...) and tried to find it somewhere on my c: disk. 
Unfortunately, this 'build' or 'build.exe' file does not exist nor a 
'check' file, nor any complementary command of Rcmd

After some research hours (actually since yesterday...), I cannot find 
where I have got wrong yet... and considering the result, I am sure I got 
somewhere!

Can somebody help me on this?

Thanks in advance,

Patrick Giraudoux


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