Ten Steps to Building an R package under Windows
If you’ve spent any amount of time working in R there comes a point when you want to create your own package in R. I’ve switched back and forth between running R on my MAC and running it on Windows and I thought I’d give package development on Windows a try. What I’ll try to do on these pages is document that process step by step for the raw beginner.
First off, I need to thank all the R experts who have help put all the tools and documentation in place. Without them none of this would be possible.
How to Build a Package in Windows
Use the guide below to jump to any section you want. I’ll take you through the entire process as I did it.
Step One: Update your R and other Tools. We will start by updating our version of R and I’ll update my current version of RStudio. Neither of these steps are difficult and you can just skip this section as you should already be familiar with these types of tasks.
Step Two: Get to know your Windows System
Step Three: Decide which kind of package you want to build
Step Five: Installing the tools
Step Seven: Reboot and do some reading
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Very interesting and informative. I was wondering if you think that someone (like me) could download comma separated files (.csv) from a horse racing website that has data from past performances using your build steps. I would be interested in doing things like time series, and econometric techniques applied to horse racing. Any comments appreciated.
yes, but you dont need to build a package. Just get R and download the file
This is very helpful. I am making my first steps trying to build C code into my R programs. Most other places (like R documentation on CRAN) skip a lot of these, for example the nature of R CMD. Thank you Steve!
This is the best ever documentation for creating “R packages using Windows”. Simple and to the point. Thanks Steve. This was very helpful.
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Hi Steve, thanks for the tutorial. I followed your ways and edited the path carefully. However, when I ran “R CMD build mypkg” in command prompt, it said “C:\ Program is not recognized as an external….”. I tried to fix this problem by surfing online, but still got stuck on this. Do you have any idea on this. Thanks!!!
Hi! I found your tutorial very useful. I am writing my dissertation about a package I published thanks to this tutorial. I will acknowledge your work on it. Thank you!
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Hello everyone, I would like to ask a question about the construction of a packae in R.
The functions to be implemented in the package are supported of course other packages.
How do I import the latter in my package? Excuse my ignorance but is the first time I approach the building of a package.
Thanks in advance
I too am getting ‘BUILD’ is not recognized as an internal or external command. Thank you for the tutorial but there is definitely missing information. My Environment path is correct. This whole process is completely painless on Linux folks, it takes literary minutes on Ubuntu to not only install the R environment but to also build a package. Unfortunately binary compatibility with packages is not supported (apparently not even if 100% of the code in your package is R code). The authors of R appear to have no regard for Windows developers whatsoever. It’s a real shame.
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