Unable to reproduce minimal working example Rcpp - c++

Question

I downloaded and installed the Rcpp package recently in order to speed up the code of my own package using some C++ code.
The first thing I do is making a package with Rcpp.package.skeleton(name="firstpackage"):
> Rcpp.package.skeleton(name="firstpackage")
Creating directories ...
Creating DESCRIPTION ...
Creating NAMESPACE ...
Creating Read-and-delete-me ...
Saving functions and data ...
Making help files ...
Done.
Further steps are described in './firstpackage/Read-and-delete-me'.
Adding Rcpp settings
>> added Imports: Rcpp
>> added LinkingTo: Rcpp
>> added useDynLib directive to NAMESPACE
>> added importFrom(Rcpp, evalCpp) directive to NAMESPACE
>> added example src file using Rcpp attributes
>> compiled Rcpp attributes
>> added Rd file for rcpp_hello_world
This generates a file system with folders man, R and src as it should. However the files Makevars, Makevars.win and rcpp_hello_world.h are missing in these folders, if I compare with the example on page 66-67 in the book Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp. Why aren't these files generated like in the example? After installing firstpackage I cannot use the function rcpp_hello_world() so I guess it is because of the missing files.
edit: It is clear now that the problem is not the missing files but something else. I tried again, now exactly following the instructions:
> Rcpp.package.skeleton("ruben")
Creating directories ...
Creating DESCRIPTION ...
Creating NAMESPACE ...
Creating Read-and-delete-me ...
Saving functions and data ...
Making help files ...
Done.
Further steps are described in './ruben/Read-and-delete-me'.
Adding Rcpp settings
>> added Imports: Rcpp
>> added LinkingTo: Rcpp
>> added useDynLib directive to NAMESPACE
>> added importFrom(Rcpp, evalCpp) directive to NAMESPACE
>> added example src file using Rcpp attributes
>> compiled Rcpp attributes
>> added Rd file for rcpp_hello_world
Then I look at the files. (a bit weird but the file structure appears to be the same)
> system("tree ruben")
Folder PATH listing for volume OSDisk
Volume serial number is A811-3ED9
C:\USERS\N14083\DOCUMENTS\RUBEN
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Then I install the newly created package:
> system("R CMD INSTALL ruben")
* installing to library 'C:/Users/n14083/Documents/R/win-library/3.1'
* installing *source* package 'ruben' ...
** libs
*** arch - i386
Warning: running command 'make -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.1/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.1/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB_LDFLAGS='$(SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS)' SHLIB_LD='$(SHLIB_CXXLD)' SHLIB="ruben.dll" OBJECTS="RcppExports.o rcpp_hello_world.o"' had status 127
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'ruben'
* removing 'C:/Users/n14083/Documents/R/win-library/3.1/ruben'
Warning message:
running command 'R CMD INSTALL ruben' had status 1
The installation fails:
library(ruben)
Error in library(ruben) : there is no package called ‘ruben’
edit: solution Download the Windows toolset (http://cran.at.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#The-Windows-toolset) and set the PATH correctly, in my case:
pathRtools <- paste(c("c:\\Rtools\\bin",
"C:\\Rtools\\gcc-4.6.3\\bin",
"c:\\PROGRA~2\\MIKTEX~1.9\\miktex\\bin",
"C:\\PROGRA~1\\R\\R-3.1.1\\bin\\i386",
"c:\\windows",
"c:\\windows\\system32"), collapse=";")
Sys.setenv(PATH=pathRtools)
setwd("C:/Users/n14083/Documents")
system("R CMD INSTALL ruben")
and then restart R.

Answer 1

The book was current when it was written. As you now observe, the header is no longer included, neither are the Makevars as they are no longer needed.
That is because we now build with Rcpp Attributes. It is easier.
It still all works (of course).
Log below.
R> Rcpp.package.skeleton("ruben")
Creating directories ...
Creating DESCRIPTION ...
Creating NAMESPACE ...
Creating Read-and-delete-me ...
Saving functions and data ...
Making help files ...
Done.
Further steps are described in './ruben/Read-and-delete-me'.
Adding Rcpp settings
>> added Imports: Rcpp
>> added LinkingTo: Rcpp
>> added useDynLib directive to NAMESPACE
>> added importFrom(Rcpp, evalCpp) directive to NAMESPACE
>> added example src file using Rcpp attributes
>> compiled Rcpp attributes
>> added Rd file for rcpp_hello_world
R>
So let's look at the files:
R> system("tree ruben")
ruben
├── DESCRIPTION
├── man
│   ├── rcpp_hello_world.Rd
│   └── ruben-package.Rd
├── NAMESPACE
├── R
│   └── RcppExports.R
├── Read-and-delete-me
└── src
├── RcppExports.cpp
└── rcpp_hello_world.cpp
3 directories, 8 files
R>
And use them:
R> system("R CMD INSTALL ruben")
* installing to library ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
* installing *source* package ‘ruben’ ...
** libs
g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O3 -Wall -pipe -Wno-unused -pedantic -c rcpp_hello_world.cpp -o rcpp_hello_world.o
g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O3 -Wall -pipe -Wno-unused -pedantic -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
g++ -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o ruben.so RcppExports.o rcpp_hello_world.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ruben/libs
** R
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (ruben)
R>
And it obviously works:
R> library(ruben)
R> rcpp_hello_world()
[[1]]
[1] "foo" "bar"
[[2]]
[1] 0 1
R>
So please substantiate the claim
After installing firstpackage I cannot use the function rcpp_hello_world() so I guess it is because of the missing files.
Running this skeleton is part of every unit test run so this has been tested literally thousands of time since the book was written.