On Tue, 15 May 2007, Eglin, Jason wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trying to build a package for R to use on windows. I have > been able to build it with out problems except for one thing. I am > creating a zip file to be installed by the R gui. > > I have four directories under the main dir. I have data, man, R, and > src. The problem that I have been having, is that the data directory is > being zipped up, then when I install the package the data directory > isn't being unzipped when using the gui (This is the main way many of > the users that I work with use R). When I make my call to build the zip > fill it looks like the following: > >>> R CMD build --binary --use-zip-help --docs=normal batdebug > > I have taken out the --use-zip-help flag and I still created the zipped > data directory. I have three items in the data directory, a config file > and two java files that are invoked by a dll that is in the src > directory. The three files in the data directory is about 1,200 KB in > total size. > > I have R 1.9.1 installed to build with because it doesn't zip up the > data directory like the current version of R.
Packages installed under 1.9.1 will be unusable under current R. > I have looked into the R documentation to find if I am not using a flag > or something. I have tried the --auto-zip and --use-zip-data flags and > neither of these flags did anything different. > > I have been experiencing this problem with R 2.4.1 ( I have tried with > several other versions of R and they all do the same thing since 2.0.0.) > > Can anyone point me in the correct direction of a flag to include or how > to fix this problem. Not use the data directory for non-R data? R is perfectly capable of unzipping the data for its own use. As 'Writing R Extensions' says The @file{data} subdirectory is for additional data files the package makes available for loading using @code{data()}. Currently, data files can have one of three types as indicated by their extension: plain R code (@file{.R} or @file{.r}), tables (@file{.tab}, @file{.txt}, or @file{.csv}), or @code{save()} images (@file{.RData} or @file{.rda}). You could for example install via the inst directory. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.