Thanks to Jeff Laake for giving me a starting point.
It appears my zipping should have been:
zip -r hello.zip hello
essentially creating an outer folder having the package
name inside the zip file. It still didn't quite work,
with an error as follows:
> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
updating HTML package descriptions
Warning message:
no package 'file678418be' was found in: packageDescription(i, lib.loc =
lib, field = "Title", encoding =
"UTF-8")>
The warning doesn't mean anything to me, but I suspect that because
I zipped the linux files, it is possible that the unix end-of-line
difference might pose a problem. I'll try doing the obvious
conversion and will report back.
As I wrote to Jeff, I'll be happy to document this experience once
I understand it. For those of us interested in spreading R source
with no C/Fortran (e.g. packages in their simplest form), this
packaging should be fairly simple from first principles without
having to rely on special tools.
Regards,
Jay
