From Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Thu Dec  6 08:09:33 2001
From: Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:09:33 +0100
Subject: [Rd] RE: [R] trouble with R CMD INSTALL for building my own library
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>>>>> jonathan li writes:

> Hi all,
> Problem solved!

> Thanks to a suggestion by Robert Gentleman, I realized that there may
> be something that makes R think that mylib is a binary rather than
> source package. I downloaded Brian Ripley's tree source package and
> basically copied each directory. As it turns out, I have not put in a
> mylib/man subdirectory (I thought I could add it any time later.) and
> R was then tricked to believe that mylib is a binary! Once I add an
> empty mylib/man subdirectory, things become normal with compiling
> etc. Timothy, I think that your problem is likely to be the same
> source then.

Jonathan:

In that case, does not R CMD INSTALL start by saying
"Installing binary package ..."?

-k
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[Rd] RE: [R] trouble with R CMD INSTALL for building my own library
Kurt Hornik