R help - Jul 2005 - Making Package, Chm error, Html Help Workshop

Hello,

When building my package (R CMD check) following error message occurs:
 ...
  varinf.plot  text     html     latex      example
  x            text     html     latex      example
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `disclosure.chm`. Stop.
cp: cannot stat 'D:/Programme/R/rw2010dev/disclosure/chm/disclosure.chm`: No
such file or directory
make[1]: *** [chm-disclosure] Error 1
make: *** [pkg-disclosure] Error 2
*** Installation of disclosure failed ***
Removing `D:/Programme/R/rw2010dev/bin/disclosure.Rcheck/disclosure'
 ERROR
Installation failed.

It seems, that there is a problem with HTML Workshop. No chm??s were built.
When I uninstall the HTML Help Workshop and remove the entry in the path
environmental variable and doing packaging after this, the same error occurs.
I??m sure, that I have written the right entry (the path of the HTML help
Workschop, where the hhc.exe file is) in the path of the environmental variable
as the instructions said.

(Windows XP, Intel, R 2.1.0, HTML Workshop 1.32)

Has anybody seen such a problem before?
Can anybody give me a hint, please?

Thank you very much,
Matthias

TEMPL Matthias wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When building my package (R CMD check) following error message occurs:
>  ...
>   varinf.plot  text     html     latex      example
>   x            text     html     latex      example
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `disclosure.chm`. Stop.
> cp: cannot stat
'D:/Programme/R/rw2010dev/disclosure/chm/disclosure.chm`: No such file or
directory
> make[1]: *** [chm-disclosure] Error 1
> make: *** [pkg-disclosure] Error 2
> *** Installation of disclosure failed ***
> Removing `D:/Programme/R/rw2010dev/bin/disclosure.Rcheck/disclosure'
>  ERROR
> Installation failed.
> 
> It seems, that there is a problem with HTML Workshop. No chm??s were built.
> When I uninstall the HTML Help Workshop and remove the entry in the path
environmental variable and doing packaging after this, the same error occurs.
> I??m sure, that I have written the right entry (the path of the HTML help
Workschop, where the hhc.exe file is) in the path of the environmental variable
as the instructions said.
> 
> (Windows XP, Intel, R 2.1.0, HTML Workshop 1.32)
> 
> Has anybody seen such a problem before?
> Can anybody give me a hint, please?

hhc.exe is found, because it is not reported that hhc is not there.
I guess you have used an irregular name (from hhc's point of view) as 
the name or alias of a help topic, or you have an irregular name of an 
Rd file.
Have you tried with a recent and released version of R such as R-2.1.1? 
Your's is unreleased, obviously.
If it still won't work, please sent me the source package and I will 
take a look.

Uwe Ligges


> Thank you very much,
> Matthias
> 
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Hi Matthias,

I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't easy to come 
around it but i made it.
Did you use the skeloton function in R?
If yes:
Did you fill out both the discripton-form and the help-pages?
Did you follow all the further steps recommended?
Did you point in the make-file direcetly to the place where you hhc.exe 
resides on your system?
What error messages gives you the error.log file in the rCheck-directory?
Maybe i can help you if you specify the whole procedure.


Greats, Lars