Oh Sorry Mr Murdoch!  I read a post where both you and Brian Ripley were 
involved and the confusion probably arose from that!

Ok thanks Mr Ligges.

Ian  

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IAN SCHILLER, M.Sc.

Statistical research assistant, 
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Center
Assistant de recherche en statistiques,
Département d'Épidémiologie Clinique, Centre Universitaire de Santé Mcgill

Tel: 514 934 1934 ext. 36925
Email: ian.schil...@clinepi.mcgill.ca


-----Original Message-----
From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de] 
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 12:45 PM
To: Ian Schiller
Cc: Duncan Murdoch; r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] R CMD build creates tar file instead of tar.gz file



On 24.03.2011 17:36, Ian Schiller wrote:
> Thanks for your prompt answer Mr. Ripley.  It appears the version of tar I'm 
> using is exactly the same as the one included in the latest Rtools.  I 
> noticed that the Rtools/bin directory was not first in path, so I corrected 
> this.  However, I'm still not able to create a tar.gz file with the R CMD 
> build command.   Then my question would be the following.  If I submit my 
> package to CRAN do you know if it needs to be tar.gz or will a tar file be 
> accepted?


Looks like "Duncan Murdoch" is now considered to be an alias for "Mr. 
Ripley".

Anyway, we do not accept .tar files on CRAN.
Please fix your setup and submit a tar.gz as generated from R CMD build.

Thanks,
Uwe Ligges



> Thanks again
>
> Ian
>
> ******************************************************************************************************************************
> IAN SCHILLER, M.Sc.
>
> Statistical research assistant,
> Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Center
> Assistant de recherche en statistiques,
> Département d'Épidémiologie Clinique, Centre Universitaire de Santé Mcgill
>
> Tel: 514 934 1934 ext. 36925
> Email: ian.schil...@clinepi.mcgill.ca
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:57 AM
> To: Ian Schiller
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] R CMD build creates tar file instead of tar.gz file
>
> On 24/03/2011 10:36 AM, Ian Schiller wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm trying to create my own package by following for instance 
>> http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6175/2/tr036.pdf  In step 6 (page 19) it says 
>> that the command 'R CMD build<mypackage>' should result in a tar.gz file.  
>> However, after running the command I end up with a tar file only (no gz 
>> extension).  I also get the following warnings in the command prompt
>>
>> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.2\src>R CMD build HSROC
>> * checking for file 'HSROC/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>> * preparing 'HSROC':
>> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
>> cygwin warning:
>>     MS-DOS style path detected: C:/Program 
>> Files/R/R-2.12.2/src/HSROC_1.0.0.tar
>>     Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/Program 
>> Files/R/R-2.12.2/src/HSROC_
>> 1.0.0.tar
>>     CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this 
>> warning.
>
> I think that might mean you are running the wrong version of tar.  Did
> you put the Rtools/bin directory first in your path?  What does
>
> tar --version
>
> give?  The current Rtools version says
>
> tar (GNU tar) 1.21
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
>
> but Cygwin is distributing a newer one.
>
> I do see some oddities with build in 2.12.2 in Windows 7:  on my first
> attempt,  I got all sorts of errors, e.g.
>
> * checking for file 'ellipse/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'ellipse':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> /cygdrive/c/Rtools/bin/tar: ellipse/.svn/prop-base: file changed as we
> read it
> /cygdrive/c/Rtools/bin/tar: ellipse/.svn/text-base: file changed as we
> read it
> /cygdrive/c/Rtools/bin/tar: ellipse/.svn/tmp: file changed as we read it
> /cygdrive/c/Rtools/bin/tar: ellipse/.svn: file changed as we read it
> /cygdrive/c/Rtools/bin/tar: ellipse/chm: file changed as we read it
> ...
>
> but on the second attempt it was fine.  This may be an interaction with
> a virus checker; that's often a problem on Windows.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>>     Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>>       http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
>> cygwin warning:
>>     MS-DOS style path detected: C:/Program 
>> Files/R/R-2.12.2/src/HSROC_1.0.0.tar
>>     Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/Program 
>> Files/R/R-2.12.2/src/HSROC_
>> 1.0.0.tar
>>     CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this 
>> warning.
>>     Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>>       http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
>> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
>> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
>> * building 'HSROC_1.0.0.tar.gz'
>> cygwin warning:
>>     MS-DOS style path detected: C:/Program 
>> Files/R/R-2.12.2/src/HSROC_1.0.0.tar
>>     Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/Program 
>> Files/R/R-2.12.2/src/HSROC_
>> 1.0.0.tar
>>     CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this 
>> warning.
>>     Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>>       http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
>> cygwin warning:
>>     MS-DOS style path detected: C:/Program 
>> Files/R/R-2.12.2/src/HSROC_1.0.0.tar
>>     Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/Program 
>> Files/R/R-2.12.2/src/HSROC_
>> 1.0.0.tar
>>     CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this 
>> warning.
>>     Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>>       http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
>>
>>
>> I have installed R-2.12.2 which should be the latest version.  I also have 
>> the latest version of Rtools (Rtools212.exe).  My operating system is 
>> Windows XP professional x64 edition if it can help.  Any clues on how to 
>> solve this issue would be appreciated.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> ******************************************************************************************************************************
>> IAN SCHILLER, M.Sc.
>>
>> Statistical research assistant,
>> Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Center
>> Assistant de recherche en statistiques,
>> Département d'Épidémiologie Clinique, Centre Universitaire de Santé Mcgill
>>
>> Tel: 514 934 1934 ext. 36925
>> Email: ian.schil...@clinepi.mcgill.ca
>>
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