Petr Savicky wrote: >> You can also use the Windows binary build and check service at >> http://129.217.207.166 after reading its disclaimer... > > Thank you very much. This worked including generating .chm file. The resulting > package is installable under R GUI on Windows XP, which is sufficient for me. > > Let me point out that I did not succeed to install any package > (including the standard ones like rpart) on Windows using R CMD INSTALL > <package>, > although I have Rtools and perl installed, running and in the path. > > The error message for windows binary package rpart from CRAN is: > Error in Rdinfo(RdFiles[i]) : missing/empty \name field in > 'E:/R/rpart/man/rpart.Rd.gz > Rd files must have a non-empty \name.
R CMD INSTALL is intended to install source packages, not binary packages. Uwe Ligges >>> 4. Install the package under Linux and zip the directory >>> library/<package> and unzip it in the library directory >>> on Windows machine. This works. The package behaves >>> correctly. However, I do not think that this is a suggested >>> method. >> Well, it _is_ a suggested method: see README.packages. > > This also produced a package installable by the standard procedure under > Windows GUI. Thank you for pointing this out. (Again, R CMD INSTALL does > not work for the resulting package.) > > All the best, Petr. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
