R help - Oct 2003 - .First.lib doesn't appear to be running after calling lib rary()

Thanks - it is indeed the first '.' that's the problem...
Crispin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liaw, Andy [mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com]
> Sent: 07 October 2003 15:21
> To: Crispin Miller
> Subject: RE: [R] .First.lib doesn't appear to be running after calling
> lib rary()
> 
> 
> I put .First.lib in the file "zzz.R", and it works for me.  
> My guess is that
> the problem is using a filename that starts with ".".  I see 
> many packages
> put the .First.lib in zzz.R, so I just follow that.
> 
> HTH,
> Andy
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Crispin Miller [mailto:CMiller at PICR.man.ac.uk] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:00 AM
> > To: R-help (E-mail)
> > Subject: [R] .First.lib doesn't appear to be running after 
> > calling library()
> > 
> > 
> > Hi - so I've dusted off the C bits of my brain and gotten a 
> > library written for my package...
> >  
> > It passes R CMD check ok, and I've put a file called 
> > '.First.lib.R' in the pacakge's 'R'  subdirectory.
Its
> > permissions are 644.
> > 
> > It says:
> > 
> > .First.lib <- function(lib,pkg) {
> >    library.dynam("foo",pkg,lib);
> >    require(affy,quietly=TRUE);
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > I build and INSTALL the package, start R and then call 
> > library(foo). I deduce that my '.First.lib' isn't running 
> > because the affy library doesn't get loaded - and neither 
> > does my dynamic library (which complies ok and results in 
> > 'foo.so' being put in the 'src/' directory of the
package)...
> > 
> > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
> > 
> > Crispin
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>From the R-exts manual:
===The R subdirectory contains R code files. The code files to be installed
must start with a (lower or upper case) letter and have one of the
extensions .R, .S, .q, .r, or .s. We recommend using .R, as this extension
seems to be not used by any other software. It should be possible to read in
the files using source(), so R objects must be created by assignments. Note
that there need be no connection between the name of the file and the R
objects created by it. If necessary, one of these files (historically zzz.R)
should use library.dynam() inside .First.lib() to load compiled code. 
===
So the problem is the "." that the filename starts with.

HTH,
Andy
> From: Crispin Miller [mailto:CMiller at PICR.man.ac.uk] 
> 
> Hi - so I've dusted off the C bits of my brain and gotten a 
> library written for my package...
>  
> It passes R CMD check ok, and I've put a file called 
> '.First.lib.R' in the pacakge's 'R'  subdirectory. Its 
> permissions are 644.
> 
> It says:
> 
> .First.lib <- function(lib,pkg) {
>    library.dynam("foo",pkg,lib);
>    require(affy,quietly=TRUE);
> }
> 
> 
> I build and INSTALL the package, start R and then call 
> library(foo). I deduce that my '.First.lib' isn't running 
> because the affy library doesn't get loaded - and neither 
> does my dynamic library (which complies ok and results in 
> 'foo.so' being put in the 'src/' directory of the
package)...
> 
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Crispin
>  
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