Comments on: Building R packages for Windows

By: alex

alex — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:04:24 +0000

Sorry. I installed it in R GUI. Thanks you for your help.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:54:03 +0000

Thank you for your quick respose. I found it in C:\Program Files (x86)\R\R-2.10.1\bin. However, when I run Rcmd install mypackage. it showed it can’t open perl script “C:\PROGRA~2\R\R-210~1.1\bin\install”.

I cannot find it either , I changed path in way as above.

Do you have suggestion? Thanks.

have a good day!

By: Rob J Hyndman

Rob J Hyndman — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:26:38 +0000

If Rcmd is not recognized at the DOS prompt then you don’t have the path to the R bin directory set up properly (step 1.3). Type “path” at the DOS prompt and check that the directory is listed.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:24:40 +0000

I have done my R package on UNIX, and it did not work in Windows. I tried to build R package using above steps.

But there is no RCMD command on DOS prompt , it show it is not recognized as internal or external command.

Do you know the reason? My PC os is windows7. Thanks

By: Rob J Hyndman

Rob J Hyndman — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:41:27 +0000

Thanks David. I’ve updated the instructions.

By: David Scott

David Scott — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:30:53 +0000

I recommended this post on R-help as being useful. Uwe Ligges rightly pointed out there have been changes since R-2.10.0:

” … these instructions are outdated since there is no chm help
support for R-2.10.x, for example.”

You may wish to update

By: Rob J Hyndman

Rob J Hyndman — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:59:18 +0000

It sounds like some kind of problem with your Rd files rather than with the software needed to build a package for Windows. build without –binary is just zipping up your directory and not processing any files.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:23:34 +0000

Rob, thanks for posting this but I am still struggling to make your example work. All the steps work up to

Rcmd build –binary fred

*** installing help indices
Error in Rd_info(db[[i]]) : Rd files must have a non-empty \title.
See chapter ‘Writing R documentation’ in manual ‘Writing R Extensions’.
* removing ‘C:/Users/eick/AppData/Local/Temp/Rinst1284800485/fred’
ERROR
* installation failed

My \title is fine and Rcmd build works fine if I take out the –binary but the resulting fred_1.0.tar.gz won’t install.