[Roxygen-devel] Rcmd roxygen?

[Tobias Verbeke]

Manuel J. A. Eugster wrote:

>> Should the package installation have placed the file there? 
> 
> Yes, but only if the needed tools are installed, i.e., the
> 'make' program.
> 
> If make is missing, you can get it by installing the Rtools:
> 
> 	> http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/
> 
> 
> If make is already available, then something went wrong
> during the installation process.
> 
> A work-around is to copy the roxygen script from the
> development repository in the R/bin direcectory by hand.
> Get it from:
> 
> 	> http://r-forge.r-project.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/pkg/src/roxygen?rev=205&root=roxygen&view=auto
> 

and save it as roxygen.sh; otherwise you will obtain an error
message

Can't exec /bin/sh at C:\R\R-2.8.1/bin/roxygen line 1.

(tested under Windows XP as virtualbox guest OS on ubuntu host)

calling R CMD roxygen.sh on a package then works as does
R CMD roxygen on GNU/Linux.

Best,
Tobias