R devel - Jul 2004 - some problems building a package using R CMD CHECK (PR#7118)

hello,

my name is Roman Pahl and recently i tried to build a package under Windows.
I created the skeleton and did alle the documentation stuff.

As i wanted to check it using the 'R CMD CHECK pkgname' command in the
Dos-console some errors appeared.
I don=B4t know how to handle.
Here are important parts of the log: I marked my questions with a
"<----------"

D:\tools\R\rw1090>R CMD CHECK --no-latex GroupSeqPack
* using log directory 'D:/tools/R/rw1090/GroupSeqPack.Rcheck'
* checking for file 'GroupSeqPack/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK

installing R.css in D:/tools/R/rw1090/GroupSeqPack.Rcheck


---------- Making package GroupSeqPack ------------
  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
  installing R files
  installing man source files
  installing indices
There were 18 warnings (use warnings() to see them)                             
<------------------------------------------ i tried "warnings()"
but that command does not seem to exist
  installing help
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'GroupSeqPack'
     Formats: text html latex example
  alphaByUseFunction                text    html    latex   example
  ....
  ........some more functions..........
  .....
  useSpendingFunction               text    html    latex   example
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'GroupSeqPack'
     Formats: chm
hhc: not found                                                                  
<-------------------------------------------- what is "hhc" for?
cp: cannot stat `D:/tools/R/rw1090/GroupSeqPack/chm/GroupSeqPack.chm': No
such f <-------------------------  maybe this follows cause of missing hhc
ile or directory
make[1]: *** [chm-GroupSeqPack] Error 1                                         
<----------------------------------------  and this ones also following
mistakes=20
make: *** [pkg-GroupSeqPack] Error 2                                            
<----------------------------------------=20=20
*** Installation of GroupSeqPack failed ***


* checking package directory ... OK
* checking for portable file names ... OK
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking index information ... OK
* checking package subdirectories ... OK
* checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
* checking R files for library.dynam ... OK
* checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
* checking for replacement functions with final arg not named 'value'
... OK
* checking foreign function calls ... OK
* checking Rd files ... OK
* checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
* checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
* checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
* creating GroupSeqPack-Ex.R ... OK
* checking examples ... OK


thanks for your efforts,
sincerly
Roman Pahl
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First off, this is not a bug, and should not be reported to r-bugs.
Second, the email address you used bounces.  Please use a real one, or
make it clear that what you used is not real.

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:25:10 +0200 (CEST), roman.pahl@web.de wrote:
>---------- Making package GroupSeqPack ------------
>  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
>  installing R files
>  installing man source files
>  installing indices
>There were 18 warnings (use warnings() to see them)                       
>           <------------------------------------------ i tried
"warnings()"> but that command does not seem to exist
warnings() is an R command.  You should try to track this down, but
it's not urgent:  solve the other problems first.
>  installing help
> >>> Building/Updating help pages for package
'GroupSeqPack'
>     Formats: text html latex example
>  alphaByUseFunction                text    html    latex   example
>  ....
>  ........some more functions..........
>  .....
>  useSpendingFunction               text    html    latex   example
> >>> Building/Updating help pages for package
'GroupSeqPack'
>     Formats: chm
>hhc: not found                                                            
>                            <--------------------------------------------
w>hat is "hhc" for?
hhc is the Microsoft help compiler.  It is needed if you want to use
CHMHELP, but you should be able to a package without it.  You'll need
to modify the MkRules file in src/gnuwin32, setting WINHELP = NO.

readme.packages gives instructions on getting the help compiler.

Duncan Murdoch

On Jul 20, 2004, at 1:25 PM, roman.pahl@web.de wrote:
> hhc: not found                                                          
>     >                              
> <-------------------------------------------- w> hat is
"hhc" for?
from the INSTALL file:

   If you want to make compiled html (.chm) files you will need the
   Microsoft HTML Help Workshop, currently available for download at
    
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/ 
hwmicrosofthtmlhelpdownloads.asp
   and http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/appndx/appa06.htm

That's the hhc. Further reading in the INSTALL:

   You need the following in your path (with the first two first):
   .
   our toolset
   mingw\bin
   Perl\bin
   the latex bin directory
   zip.exe, unzip.exe, hhc.exe

And, please, this is not a bug in R, so don't post it in R-bugs!

Cheers,
Simon

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