Dear WizaRds, I wrote a small function in R and would like to create a package. The necessary documentation is done, Rtools etc. are installed and I am still unable to complete the process under Windows. I did extensive research in the archives and read the Murdoch-Sutherland website on the Rtools and MikTeX hints. I realize that I understand only half or less of what is said there concerning the MikTeX-R interaction in creating packages. I am sorry.
I also read the very helpful Rossi paper on 'Making R Packages under Windows. A Tutorial' as of 2006/01. I also tried to understand the .pdf on Writing R Extensions Version 2.5.1 (2007-09-04). Because of its condensed form it *might* present a true challenge to the uninitiated. I wish to apologize for not being able to comprehensively follow all of your "prescriptions", as pointed out in the manual: "This section contains a lot of prescriptive comments. They are here as a result of bitter experience. Please do not report problems to R-help unless you have followed all the prescriptions." Therefore, I hesitated long to report my problems, but since I spent long hours without any progress, I simply don't know anymore what to do. Is there anyone willing to help? I installed MikTex, Perl, htmlhelp, Rtools and WinEdt for editing purposes, and changed the path in the system environment as follows (Carriage return for readability): System Path: C:\Programme\Uni\Rtools\bin; C:\Programme\Uni\Perl\bin; C:\Programme\Uni\Rtools\MinGW\bin; C:\Programme\Uni\hmtlhelp; C:\Programme\Uni\R\bin; C:\Programme\Uni\MikTeX\miktex\bin; %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem User Path (?what is this for?) C:\Programme\Uni\MikTeX\miktex\bin R Version: R version 2.5.1 Patched (2007-09-04 r42845) Rtools Version: 2.6.0.1216 MikTeX 2.6 Directory Structure MikTeX, R, Rtools, WinEdt etc. (hierarchy with tabs): C:\Uni\MikTeX C:\Uni\R\ bin doc etc include library modules share\ licenses locale make perl\ R Text R texmf src Tcl C:\Uni\Rtools C:\Uni\WinEdt C:\Uni\Perl C:\Uni\htmlhelp I generated the minimal package structure for package mbes via skeleton(), consisting of c:\RWork\mbes\ man\mbes.Rd man\mbes.package.Rd R\mbes.R DESCRIPTION and then in a MS DOS command window: R CMD check mbes which called forth the error: Error message: C:\RWork\mbes>R CMD check mbes * checking for working latex ...Error: environment variable TMPDIR not set (or set to unusable value) and no default available. at C:\Programme\Uni\R\share\perl/R/Utils.pm line 73 I looked at the path and Utils.pm shows: ... ### * R_tempfile sub R_tempfile { my $pat = "Rutils"; $pat = $_[0] if $_[0]; R::Vars::error("TMPDIR"); my $retval = file_path($R::Vars::TMPDIR, $pat . $$ . sprintf("%05d", rand(10**5))); my $n=0; while(-e $retval) { # was -f, but want to be able to create such a file $retval = file_path($R::Vars::TMPDIR, $pat . $$ . sprintf("%05d", rand(10**5))); croak "Cannot find unused name for temporary file" if($n++ > 1000); } $retval; } ### * R_system sub R_system { my ($cmd, $Renv) = @_; my $tmpf = R_tempfile(); if($R::Vars::OSTYPE eq "windows") { open(tmpf, "> $tmpf") or die "Error: cannot write to '$tmpf'\n"; print tmpf "$cmd $Renv\n"; close tmpf; $res = system("sh $tmpf"); unlink($tmpf); return $res; } else { return system("$Renv $cmd"); } } ... I simply don't know what to do. I am very grateful for any help. Thank you so much. Yours Mark ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.