R help - Mar 2015 - An easy question on package building/installation

Hi,

   I try to build a package myself on RStudio. The command
"package.skeleton" is successfully run, but the command
"build" is not. In
my case, the username and the package name are both "abcd".

   Error message:
> R CMD build abcd
Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
>
    Could someone help me to write a correct "build" command?

    Thanks! Full log:

> setwd("D:/0B/R/pkg-abcd")
> setwd("D:/0B/R/pkg-abcd")
> package.skeleton(name="abcd")
Creating directories ...

Creating DESCRIPTION ...

Creating NAMESPACE ...

Creating Read-and-delete-me ...

Saving functions and data ...

Making help files ...

Done.

Further steps are described in './abcd/Read-and-delete-me'.

  > setwd("D:/0B/R/pkg-abcd/abcd")
> dir()
[1] "data"               "DESCRIPTION"       
"man"

[4] "NAMESPACE"          "R"                 
"Read-and-delete-me"
>

> .libPaths()
[1] "C:/Users/abcd/Documents/R/win-library/3.0"

[2] "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library"
>

> R CMD build abcd
Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
> R CMD build C:\Users\abcd\Documents\R\win-library\3.0
Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
> R CMD INSTALL -1 C:/Users/abcd/Documents/R/win-library/3.0 abcd
Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD

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You appear to be entering that command at the R prompt when it is intended to be
entered at the operating system command line. There is a whole document
"Writing R Extensions" that you really should be reading no matter
what IDE you are using.

Also, details of using RStudio are off topic here, but there is a button/menu
item that will execute these commands for you in the GUI of that program.
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On March 18, 2015 1:01:18 AM PDT, jpm miao <miaojpm at gmail.com>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>   I try to build a package myself on RStudio. The command
>"package.skeleton" is successfully run, but the command
"build" is not.
>In
>my case, the username and the package name are both "abcd".
>
>   Error message:
>
>> R CMD build abcd
>
>Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
>
>>
>
>    Could someone help me to write a correct "build" command?
>
>    Thanks! Full log:
>
>
>> setwd("D:/0B/R/pkg-abcd")
>
>> setwd("D:/0B/R/pkg-abcd")
>
>> package.skeleton(name="abcd")
>
>Creating directories ...
>
>Creating DESCRIPTION ...
>
>Creating NAMESPACE ...
>
>Creating Read-and-delete-me ...
>
>Saving functions and data ...
>
>Making help files ...
>
>Done.
>
>Further steps are described in './abcd/Read-and-delete-me'.
>
>  > setwd("D:/0B/R/pkg-abcd/abcd")
>
>> dir()
>
>[1] "data"               "DESCRIPTION"       
"man"
>
>[4] "NAMESPACE"          "R"                 
"Read-and-delete-me"
>
>>
>
>
>
>> .libPaths()
>
>[1] "C:/Users/abcd/Documents/R/win-library/3.0"
>
>[2] "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library"
>
>>
>
>
>
>> R CMD build abcd
>
>Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
>
>> R CMD build C:\Users\abcd\Documents\R\win-library\3.0
>
>Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
>
>> R CMD INSTALL -1 C:/Users/abcd/Documents/R/win-library/3.0 abcd
>
>Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD
>
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>
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