R help - Apr 2009 - problems with package tutorial

Hi: Here's my revised attempt at explaining my problem. Hopefully it
won't
   get sent out weirdly like it did earlier. ?  The link to what I'm trying
to
   follow is
   http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/AlanRPackageTutorial.pdf
   ? I've been going through the tutorial but when I got to page 9 and did
   R CMD SHLIB Xdemo.cc Xdemo_main.cc -o Xdemo.dll
   I got the following error:
   XDemo_res.rc:15:38: warning: missing terminating " character
   XDemo_res.rc:23:34: warning: missing terminating ' character
   c:\mark\research\Rtools\MinGW\bin\windres.exe: XDemo_res.rc:16: syntax error
   Then XDemo_res.rc file that gets created is below. I'm using Windows ans
R
   2.8.1.?  I'd really like to make this work so I can continue my learning
   experience. It's a very nice example that I could really learn a lot
from.
   Thanks a lot for any help/enlightenment.
   #==========================================================================  
#include <windows.h>
   #include "Rversion.h"
   VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
   FILEVERSION R_FILEVERSION
   PRODUCTVERSION 3,0,0,0
   FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3L
   FILEOS VOS__WINDOWS32
   FILETYPE VFT_APP
   BEGIN
   ? ? ?  BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
   ? ? ?  BEGIN
   ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  BLOCK "040904E4"
   ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  BEGIN
   ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  VALUE "FileDescription", "DLL for R
package `test
   Version: 0.0
   Date: 2009-03-31
   Title: Test Package
   Author: Mark Leeds <markleeds at verizon.net>
   Maintainer: Mark Leeds <markleeds at verizon.net>
   Depends: R (>= 2.8.1)
   Description: A set of demonstration functions using C, C++, R-code
   License: GPL (version 2 or later)'\0"
   ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  VALUE "FileVersion", "unknown\0"
   ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  VALUE "Compiled under R Version", R_MAJOR
"." R_MINOR
   " (" R_YEAR "-" R_MONTH "-" R_DAY
")\0"
   ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  VALUE "Project info",
"http://www.r-project.org\0"
   ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  END
   ? ? ?  END
   ? ? ?  BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
   ? ? ?  BEGIN
   ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1252
   ? ? ?  END
   END

You have so many strange special characters (including different quotes 
  at strange places) below, that it is impossible to find out anything.

If you are using the same editor you are writing your e-mails with, I am 
sure you will have diverse problems with your code....

Uwe Ligges



markleeds at verizon.net wrote:
>    Hi: Here's my revised attempt at explaining my problem. Hopefully it
won't
>    get sent out weirdly like it did earlier. ?  The link to what I'm
trying to
>    follow is
>   
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/AlanRPackageTutorial.pdf
>    ? I've been going through the tutorial but when I got to page 9 and
did
>    R CMD SHLIB Xdemo.cc Xdemo_main.cc -o Xdemo.dll
>    I got the following error:
>    XDemo_res.rc:15:38: warning: missing terminating " character
>    XDemo_res.rc:23:34: warning: missing terminating ' character
>    c:\mark\research\Rtools\MinGW\bin\windres.exe: XDemo_res.rc:16: syntax
error
>    Then XDemo_res.rc file that gets created is below. I'm using Windows
ans R
>    2.8.1.?  I'd really like to make this work so I can continue my
learning
>    experience. It's a very nice example that I could really learn a lot
from.
>    Thanks a lot for any help/enlightenment.
>   
#==========================================================================> 
>    #include <windows.h>
>    #include "Rversion.h"
>    VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
>    FILEVERSION R_FILEVERSION
>    PRODUCTVERSION 3,0,0,0
>    FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3L
>    FILEOS VOS__WINDOWS32
>    FILETYPE VFT_APP
>    BEGIN
>    ? ? ?  BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
>    ? ? ?  BEGIN
>    ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  BLOCK "040904E4"
>    ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  BEGIN
>    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  VALUE "FileDescription", "DLL for
R package `test
>    Version: 0.0
>    Date: 2009-03-31
>    Title: Test Package
>    Author: Mark Leeds <markleeds at verizon.net>
>    Maintainer: Mark Leeds <markleeds at verizon.net>
>    Depends: R (>= 2.8.1)
>    Description: A set of demonstration functions using C, C++, R-code
>    License: GPL (version 2 or later)'\0"
>    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  VALUE "FileVersion",
"unknown\0"
>    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  VALUE "Compiled under R Version",
R_MAJOR "." R_MINOR
>    " (" R_YEAR "-" R_MONTH "-" R_DAY
")\0"
>    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  VALUE "Project info",
"http://www.r-project.org\0"
>    ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  END
>    ? ? ?  END
>    ? ? ?  BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
>    ? ? ?  BEGIN
>    ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1252
>    ? ? ?  END
>    END
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