Please test devtools on windows

[Hadley Wickham]

Hi all,

We're getting ready for a new release of devtools that features a much
improved algorithm for detecting rtools on windows. If you have a few
minutes, I'd really appreciate you trying it out on your setup, and
letting me know if you have any problems. Install instructions can be
found at https://gist.github.com/4506250

Thanks!

Hadley

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[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I have RStudio and R 2.15.2 on 64-bit Windows 8 Pro. I executed the
gist and it seems to have installed.

> source('~/.active-rstudio-document')
trying URL 'https://gist.github.com/raw/4506250/devtools.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 200 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 257 Kb

Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Users/Ed/R/win-library/2.15’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
package ‘devtools’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

Is version 0.8.0.99 the correct one?

Anything else I need to test?

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oh way!" at the top of their lungs?

[William Beasley]

Building & checking seems to work with my package NlsyLinks 1.200 (which currently has a very old-school and un-Hadley package structure) and with the example rv2 package from your December workshop in DC.  Specs: Rtools 2.16, R 2.15.2, Win7 x64.

[William Beasley]

To give it a case that should throw a warning, I turned off the --resave-data option in build.  Clicking RStudio's 'Check' button worked in the sense that it caught the issue and a clear warning was visible in the 'Build' tab.  

However I can't find the checklog anywhere.  The package Rproj file is located at 'F:\Projects\RDev\NlsyLinksStaging\NlsyLinks'.  And the check's warning message says it should be at  'F:/Projects/RDev/NlsyLinksStaging/NlsyLinks.Rcheck/00check.log'.  But the 'NlsyLinks.Rcheck' folder is not there, and the OS search cannot find any 00check.log file on my computer.

Is there something I should be doing or trying differently?

[Hadley Wickham]

Is that from running RStudio's check, or devtools' check() ?

[William Beasley]

The Check button on RStudio.