R help - Jul 2013 - Error when building a custom package

Hi

I'm have trouble building a custom package in R. Building the package on my
colleagues computer (who made the R code content) has been (and is still)
working fine for a long time, but I simply can't duplicate the setup right
somehow (even with his help)

I have installed the same versions of software as my colleague: Windows 7, R
2.13.1 (with the required additional packages), Rtools 2.13, Miktex 2.9. All
of which are included in the Windows PATH variable as instructed by him (and
in various online tutorials)

I only get an error message, when trying to build a binary file (or runnning
/R CMD check <package name>/), not the standard tar.gz. Here is what the
output looks like in the command prompt:
/  * installing *source* package 'slo' ...
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** preparing package for lazy loading
  Loading required package: car
  Warning: package 'car' was built under R version 2.13.2
  Loading required package: MASS
  Loading required package: nnet
  Loading required package: survival
  Loading required package: splines
  Creating a new generic function for "plot" in "slo"
  Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) : 
    cannot open the connection
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'slo'
  * removing 'C:/Users/CVO/workspace/slo.Rcheck/slo'/

These are the lines which follow, when my colleague run the build
successfully:
/Creating a new generic function for "plot" in "slo" in
".GlobalEnv"
** help
...
/
I have tried following a tutorial to see if the trouble was with building
packages in general, but that does not seem to be the case, as I could get
the same outputs as described in this tutorial:  
http://stevemosher.wordpress.com/ten-steps-to-building-an-r-package-under-windows/
<http://stevemosher.wordpress.com/ten-steps-to-building-an-r-package-under-windows/>
(which builds a simple package using the skeleton package).

I have gotten the impression that generally the error with the  "Error in
file..." is a problem with a wrong path or problems with permissions, but
am
unable to find a solution. I'm running the commands in the Command prompt
with Administrator rights and have Admin right on the computer.

Any suggestions on how I can solve this issue or simply get more detailed
information about the error will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Christer V., DK



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> I only get an error message, when trying to build a binary 
> file (or runnning /R CMD check <package name>/), not the 
> standard tar.gz. Here is what the output looks like in the 
> command prompt:
> ...
> I have gotten the impression that generally the error with 
> the  "Error in file..." is a problem with a wrong path or 
> problems with permissions, 
Not sure whether it will solve your problem, but specifying a writeable location
for R CMD INSTALL --build (as described in 1.3.3 "Building binary
packages" in "Writing R extensions") should dodge a permission
problem if that is the issue. Personally I prefer to do that anyway to avoid
overwriting an existing (working) package installation.

As an aside - probably unrelated and apparently not a warning anyway - I
don't see why you would need to be be creating a new plot generic. Isn't
the existing plot generic sufficient?

S Ellison


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