Hi Salim, Salim Charaniya wrote: > Thanks a lot... > I was able to execute the command R CMD INSTALL cdfpackage. unfortunately there is an error during execution. > the first few steps go well (adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION, installing R files, data files, man source files,....installing help) > (i noticed that a subdirectory named 'chm' is created in packagecdf during execution) > The execution malfunctions at this point and i get the following error > hhc: not found You should re-check your path. This indicates that you _don't_ have the MS HTML workshop in your path. You could also do rcmd install --docs=txt,html,latex <packagename> which won't build the chm help. Best, Jim > cp: cannot stat 'c://packagecdf/chm/packagecdf.chm' no such file or directory > make[1]: ***[chm-packagecdf] Error 1 > *** Installation of packagecdf failed *** > > > Acc to the manual .chm file is created by microsoft help html workshop which i have installed on the computer (and also added to the path). Any idea why i am still getting this error? > Sorry for bothering you guys > Thanks again > Salim > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Seth Falcon <sfalcon at="" fhcrc.org=""> > To: Salim Charaniya <sal_charaniya at="" yahoo.com=""> > Cc: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 4:35:40 PM > Subject: Re: [BioC] CDF package in R (windows) > > Salim Charaniya <sal_charaniya at="" yahoo.com=""> writes: > > >>Hi all, i am a relatively new user of bioconductor. i am using R 2.5.0 >>installed on windows. I have used bioconductor for processing affy >>data. Last few days i have been trying to develop a CDF package for a >>custom affy array. I downloaded the makecdfenv package and used the >>commands in there to create a cdf package (using the .cdf file). but >>it seems that is not enough in windows environment. I have read the >>instructions in R installation and admin manual. Accordingly i >>installed the windows toolset (active perl, command line tools and >>MinGW compilers (Rtools.exe), inno setup installer). I have also >>changed the path according to the instructions in Rtools.txt. However, >>I cannot understand the following statement in the R manual: >> >>There are a number of options available: use R CMD INSTALL >> >> >>The same command works in Windows if you have the source-code package >>files (option ?Source Package Installation Files? in the installer) >>and toolset (see The Windows toolset) installed. >> >> >> >>I have tried this command (R cmd install path_for_cdfpackage). But it >>is not recognized as a command and i get an error. What are these >>source-code package files? Where can i get them? Is there anything >>else that i need to do to create the cdf package? > > > Is the bin directory of your R also in your PATH? Your efforts with > makecdfenv should have produced a source package directory. Can you > try: > > c:\<your_path_here>\R-2.5.0\bin\R CMD INSTALL somecdfpackagedir > > I think you are close to getting things to work. > > + seth > -- James W. MacDonald, M.S. Biostatistician Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core University of Michigan Cancer Center 1500 E. Medical Center Drive 7410 CCGC Ann Arbor MI 48109 734-647-5623 ********************************************************** Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.