On 07.09.2011 19:02, Juliet Hannah wrote:
To follow up (because I received a few emails off-list), things work now.

I'm not sure what I did differently. In case it is helpful:

I reinstalled R tools, and edited by path so that

C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Program
files\R\R-2.13.1\bin;C:\Program Files\HTML Help Workshop

The last entry (HTML Help Workshop) is not longer required for recent versions of R, since R does not make use of the Help Workshop any more.

Uwe Ligges



was at the beginning.

With this, my attempts at package creation worked.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Juliet Hannah<juliet.han...@gmail.com>  wrote:
I am trying to build a package using windows xp. Here is the error I am getting:

R CMD build myfunctions

* checking for file 'myfunctions/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'myfunctions':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* building 'myfunctions_1.0.tar.gz'
  ERROR
packaging into .tar.gz failed

Could anyone suggest possible things to check? Thanks.

sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base


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