Outdated documentation for installing R packages

[mjmg]

Description

For mxnet 12.1 the documentation for installing R packages seems to be outdated.
Currently these are the commands:

make rpkg
R CMD INSTALL mxnet_current_r.tar.gz

Upon checking the Makefile, using the command

make rpkg

seems to include installation of the R package from the R-package subdirectoy directly and no mxnet_current_r.tar.gz is generated.

Please see 0d294dd#diff-b67911656ef5d18c4ae36cb6741b7965 and 93cd017#diff-58231b16fdee45a03a4ee3cf94a9f2c3

Error Message:

Warning: invalid package 'mxnet_current_r.tar.gz'
Error: ERROR: no packages specified

Steps to reproduce

$ make rpkg
....
$ R CMD INSTALL mxnet_current_r.tar.gz

[spirosparaskevas]

First of all thanks for confirming this situation. I have just verified this awkwardness. Can u suggest a workaround?

[anirudhacharya]

this PR - #11590 will fix this issue.

[anirudhacharya]

This issue has been resolved in the latest master. @sandeep-krishnamurthy please close this issue.

@mjmg feel free to reopen if the problem persists.