Hello useRs,

I am trying to put my funcs in a package to avoid clutter in my workspace as the funcs are now in .Rprofile.
All plain R code no compilations. Using win XP with a full cygwin install and R2.12
I first did

package.skeleton("mypack",list="getdfv", namespace=T) # just a single func

which created a folder with the required stuff in it.
Calling R CMD build creates a tar.gz file with warnings about DOS paths.

Trying to install from the R GUI complains
> install.packages("mypack",repos="C:/Temp/mypack_1.0.tar.gz")
Warning: unable to access index for repository C:/Temp/mypack_1.0.tar.gz/bin/windows/contrib/2.12
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
  package 'mypack' is not available

putting the mypack folder in zip and then trying to install from the zip produces no error message but then

> library("mypack")
Error in library("mypack") : 'mypack' is not a valid installed package

Just putting the folder in the library folder of R did not work either

Finally
R CMD Install complains about missing title in the Rd file. I do not have a Rd file as the skeleton did not create it.

Please, advise how to make simple R code available to be called without showing in ls()

Thank you.
Stephen Bond


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