From murdoch@stats.uwo.ca  Wed Oct 18 14:57:20 2000
From: murdoch@stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:57:20 -0400
Subject: [Rd] "wizard" for building R-packages...
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For people like me who mainly use Windows, the package documentation
is rather intimidating.  It's not clear which parts of it work and
which don't, or what tools beyond base R I need to build a package
entirely within Windows (or if that is even possible).

A wizard would be helpful, but it's a lot of work for relatively few
people to use.  An easier solution would be a short document listing
all the steps necessary to build a package in Windows, including at
least pointers to the document of all the tools that should be
installed first.

This should probably contain two sections:  building a package that's
intended to be portable to other systems, and building one that's
going to be packaged in a .zip file for Windows-only use.

If someone wants to volunteer to answer questions when I get stuck,
I'll volunteer to produce the document.

Duncan Murdoch
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[Rd] "wizard" for building R-packages...
Duncan Murdoch