[R-pkg-devel] Self built R package would not be installed from local zip file in plain R

[Uwe Ligges]

On 14.01.2016 06:18, Chelsey Xiao wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Recently I built an R package and it passed R CMD check, install and
> generated package manual.
>
> But my problem is that although the package works well on my laptop, it
> would not work well in other computers. When I tried on R-studio in other
> laptops with no r packages that were needed to be imported to make my
> package run, it wouldn't automatically installing packages that I listed in
> the "Imports" in Description file. And when I tried to install this Package
> in plain R by installing from local zip file, the plain R had warnings:
>
> "Warning in install.packages(choose.files("", filters = Filters[c("zip",  :
>
> Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type"))
> :
>    cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
> 2: In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) :
>    cannot open compressed file 'R-3.2.3-win.exe

Errr, your packasge is not called "R-3.2.3-win.exe", is it?

Best,
Uwe Ligges





/DESCRIPTION', probable
> reason 'No such file or directory'
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
>
> I do not know how to handle these problems. How would I test my package
> before I put it on CRAN if the package would not run in other devices?
>
> Could anyone tell me what should I do? I will appreciate any helps.
>
> Sincerely,
> Chelsey
>
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