>> >>I am assembling an R package (under Windows XP, R v.2.3) and have a very >>basic question. Running R CMD build does not generate a pdf. R CMD >>check generates a .dvi, but I cannot figure out how to automatically >>create the pdf. I thought from reading the "writing r extensions' manual >>that R CMD build was supposed to generate the pdf. I am having no >>success using various permutations of the Rd2dvi and texi2dvi, and I'm a >>bit frustrated. I have miktex 2.4, which should (I thought) have the >>necessary pdftex tools to do this. Maybe it does; I definitely have >>various directories named 'dvipdfm', 'pdftex', etc on my computer, but I >>have no idea whether there might be a problem. > >You need to give a bit more detail. What is the .pdf being created >from? What do things look like when you run a build? Does install work?
I guess I'm not sure what the .pdf is being created from - I don't know how this works. I assumed that my set of .Rd files from the man dir would automatically be converted into .pdf, much like 'check' reads them into a dvi document. When I run a build, I get an archive with all of my .R source files, the DESCRIPTION, the .Rd files, my datafiles, and any documentation I've placed in inst/doc. When I install this from CMD, the html help & chtml files compile, examples are copied from the /man directory to their own .Rd files, and everything - to me - appears OK. 'Install' from R CMD works with no problem - it warns me that my 'examples' directory is empty, but it proceeds to create the examples from my .Rd files anyway. I only get a .dvi manual when running 'check'. >>When I install the package, I receive the message that most of my >>functions are "masked _by_ .GlobalEnv". I have no idea what this means; >>I'm sure that this is amply documented, but I confess that I have a >>rather difficult time with much of the documentation on writing packages. > >This means that you have variables in your workspace with the same names >as ones in your package. You probably want to clean out your workspace, >because most uses will find those versions before the ones in the package >-- and that really messes up testing, etc. thanks for the clarification! ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
