Re: [R-pkg-devel] win-builder, compiling C code, make[1]: ar: Command not found

2016-10-07 Thread William Dunlap
If you hadn't squelched command line echoing from your makefiles (by putting the 'at' signs in front of the commands) you might have discovered the problem faster. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Gillian Sharer wrote: >

Re: [R-pkg-devel] win-builder, compiling C code, make[1]: ar: Command not found

2016-10-07 Thread William Dunlap
Do you have a Makefile in the directory yourPackage/src/libmseed? If so, how does it call 'ar' or '$(AR)'? Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Gillian Sharer wrote: > Thank you for your response. I apologize for asking basic

Re: [R-pkg-devel] win-builder, compiling C code, make[1]: ar: Command not found

2016-10-07 Thread Gillian Sharer
Thank you for your response. I apologize for asking basic questions, but I’m new to this. On my local machine (mac osx) the $R_HOME/etc/Makeconf AR=ar and $BINPREF is not set. I have ar in my path. I’m uploading the package to http://win-builder.r-project.org/ using devtools::build_win. Am I

[R-pkg-devel] win-builder, compiling C code, make[1]: ar: Command not found

2016-10-07 Thread Gillian Sharer
Hi, I tried to submit a package to win-builder with C code and it won’t compile. I get this result: ar -crs libmseed.a fileutils.o genutils.o gswap.o lmplatform.o lookup.o msrutils.o pack.o packdata.o traceutils.otracelist.o parseutils.o unpack.o unpackdata.o selection.o logging.o

[R-pkg-devel] Use of \alias{} versus \concept{}

2016-10-07 Thread Michael Dewey
In my CRAN package metap I implement a number of techniques which have multiple names. So, for instance, what I call sumz is also called sum of normals, and Stouffer's method. I decided it would be kinder if they were documented under all the names I know. Looking at the trusty manual I see