R help - Mar 2005 - Two problems building a package

Hello all:

I have written a few R scripts and am trying to turn them into a package for
submission to CRAN. All of these scripts are R code only, no C or C++ or
anything else. I'm working with R 2.0.1 running on a Windows XP machine. So
far running ">rcmd install --build --docs=normal mypkge" seems to
work
(i.e., the library "mypkge" is installed in R\rw2001\library and the
library
loads and the scripts do what I have written them to do). 

While this is all well and good I have two (hopefully small) problems.
First, running ">rcmd check mypkge" on R\rw2001\bin\mypkg (not
R\rw2001\library\mtpkge) returns the error "\bin\mypkge is not a source
package." Have I got something very wrong or am I misunderstanding which
directory contains the "source" package? Second, I've included
some
equations in the Details section of one of my .Rd files and would like to
check that I've coded them correctly in the documentation before submission.
So far, my html and latex docs don't contain a details section, even though
they contain all other recent changes. My detail section looks like this:

\details{blah blah blah 
    \deqn{blah = Blah}{%
      blah = Blah}
where 	\eqn{blah}{%blah} = frequency of \emph{b} in Blah.

  Blah blah blah.
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Kurt Wollenberg, PhD
Tufts Center for Vision Research 
New England Medical Center
750 Washington St, Box 450 
Boston, MA, USA
kwollenberg at tufts-nemc.org 
617-636-8945 (Fax)
617-636-9028 (Lab)

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but  "That's
funny ..."
--Isaac Asimov


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Wollenberg, Kurt R wrote:
> Hello all:
> 
> I have written a few R scripts and am trying to turn them into a package
for
> submission to CRAN. All of these scripts are R code only, no C or C++ or
> anything else. I'm working with R 2.0.1 running on a Windows XP
machine. So
> far running ">rcmd install --build --docs=normal mypkge" seems
to work
> (i.e., the library "mypkge" is installed in R\rw2001\library and
the library
> loads and the scripts do what I have written them to do). 
You are talking about your *package* and your *functions*, I think.

> While this is all well and good I have two (hopefully small) problems.
> First, running ">rcmd check mypkge" on R\rw2001\bin\mypkg (
Does not need to be in ...../bin

> not
> R\rw2001\library\mtpkge) returns the error "\bin\mypkge is not a
source
> package." 
So your source package is broken somehow. Please check the DESCRIPTION file.

> Have I got something very wrong or am I misunderstanding which
> directory contains the "source" package? Second, I've
included some
> equations in the Details section of one of my .Rd files and would like to
> check that I've coded them correctly in the documentation before
submission.
> So far, my html and latex docs don't contain a details section, even
though
> they contain all other recent changes. My detail section looks like this:
> 
> \details{blah blah blah 
>     \deqn{blah = Blah}{%
>       blah = Blah}
> where 	\eqn{blah}{%blah} = frequency of \emph{b} in Blah.

The "%" above seem to be dangerous (without having tested) ...

Uwe Ligges
>   Blah blah blah.
> }
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kurt Wollenberg, PhD
> Tufts Center for Vision Research 
> New England Medical Center
> 750 Washington St, Box 450 
> Boston, MA, USA
> kwollenberg at tufts-nemc.org 
> 617-636-8945 (Fax)
> 617-636-9028 (Lab)
> 
> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
> discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but  "That's
funny ..."
> --Isaac Asimov
> 
> 
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> Confidentiality Notice\ **********************\      The inf...{{dropped}}
> 
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