I have tried to uninstall R-2.4.1 and reinstall it but I still get the same
error message. I have also tried reinstalling both mingw and perl, both with
no effect.

My DESCRIPTION file:

Package: copulaGOF
Type: Package
Title: Copula simulation, estimation and goodness-of-fit
Version: 1.5
Date: 2006-12-15
Author: Daniel Berg, Henrik Bakken (Norwegian Computing Center)
Depends: adapt, copula, fBasics, mnormt, mvtnorm, scatterplot3d, sn
Maintainer: Daniel Berg <daniel@danielberg.no>
URL: www.danielberg.no
Description: Functions for copula simulation, estimation and goodness-of-fit
testing. Includes functions for simulating and estimating higher dimensional
distributions.
License: GPL Version 2 or later, GSL-1.6

and the error message read:
$ Rcmd build --binary copulaGOF
* checking for file 'copulaGOF/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'copulaGOF' :
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR
During startup - Warning messages:
'  in: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical =
TRUE,
 in options("defaultPackages") was not found

I don't have access to binaries of older versions of R now but will try with
older version after the holidays to see if this has an effect.

Regards,
Daniel

On 12/23/06, Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Daniel Berg wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I have been building R packages under windows on my old pc,
> successfully.
> >> Now I have bought a new pc, still running windows, and I am trying to
> build
> >> the same R packages as before, but now without the same success. I have
> >> installed the Rtools, perl, mingw and added them to the environment
> >> variables.
> >> I am running Windows XP Professional on a Thinkpad T60. I have
> installed
> >> R-2.4.1, ActivePerl 5.8.8 Build 819, MinGW 5.1.2, and I downloaded
> >> tools.zipfrom
> >> http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools.
> >>
> >> I receive the following error message:
> >>
> >> $ Rcmd build --binary copulaGOF/
> >> * checking for file 'mypackage/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> >> * preparing 'copulaGOF' :
> >> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR
> >
> > Looks like something is wrong with your DESCRIPTION file. Can you send
> > us the contents of that file?
>
> I think rather with his R: the message below says 'During startup', and
> indicates that one of the default packages is missing.  That would mean
> that it has not got to running the code to look at DESCRIPTION.
>
> >
> > Uwe Ligges
> >
> >
> >> During startup - Warning messages :
> >> ' in: library(package, lib.loc = lob.loc, character.only = TRUE,
> logical =
> >> TRUE,
> >>  in options("defaultPackages") was not found
> >>
> >> In my package I have included a zzz.r file that contains the following,
> >> perhaps this is the cause?
> >> .First.lib <-function (lib, pkg)   {
> >>     library(adapt)
> >>     library(copula)
> >>     library(fBasics)
> >>     library(mvtnorm)
> >>     runif(1)
> >>     library.dynam("mypackage", package="mypackage")
> >> }
> >>
> >> Any help or comments is most welcome. Thank you.
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >> Daniel Berg
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