Hello again. I downloaded the R_Tcl zip file and extracted it to c:\R\R-2.12.0
I re-ran the entire process and still have the same problem with Windows 7. Thanks, Erin On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Erin Hodgess wrote: > >> Dear R People: >> >> I'm trying to experiment with the "make distribution" with R-2.12.0 >> when compiling from source on Windows. It works fine on Windows XP, >> but I'm having a snag with Windows 7. >> >> Here is the snag: >> >> cp -prf "../../../Tcl" R-2.12.0 >> cp: preserving permissions for `R-2.12.0/Tcl/bin': Invalid argument >> cp: preserving permissions for `R-2.12.0/Tcl/doc': Invalid argument >> >> and so on. >> >> Has anyone run into this, please? > > Yes. This is an issue with how you unpacked the Tcl directory. Without > knowing how you did that, you will need either to > > - Use Windows Explorer to correct the ownership/permissions of Tcl and those > subdirectories -- sometimes simply renaming it and making a copy called > 'Tcl' is the easiest way forward. > - Remove it and unpack it some other way, e.g. via the zip file available at > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/ > > Cygwin and Windows 7/Vista do sometimes fight over permissions (and this is > using cp from Cygwin): I've seen this more often with the Cygwin update in > the current Rtools212 than in earlier versions. > > >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> Sincerely, >> Erin >> >> -- >> Erin Hodgess >> Associate Professor >> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences >> University of Houston - Downtown >> mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
