Ok guys. First thanks again for your help. It is very appreciated. Now
here's the thing. I downloaded the Rcmd.bat and included in the path. I've
also changed the location of the package source and ran R CMD build mypackage
(Rcmd.bat is not working so I assume there is something I'm doing wrong).
However, the warnings are now gone. The file produced is still a tar (and not
tar.gz), but when I look at it within the command prompt windows using dir, it
says that the file is a tar.gz. I don't know what is the meaning of that.
Here is the output of the command prompt
C:\R>R CMD build HSROC
* checking for file 'HSROC/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'HSROC':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* building 'HSROC_1.0.0.tar.gz'
Directory of C:\R
03/24/2011 01:16 PM <DIR> .
03/24/2011 01:16 PM <DIR> ..
03/24/2011 01:08 PM <DIR> HSROC
03/24/2011 01:16 PM 47,976 HSROC_1.0.0.tar.gz
1 File(s) 47,976 bytes
3 Dir(s) 949,472,227,328 bytes free
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: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:00 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 Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Ian Schiller
> <ian.schil...@clinepi.mcgill.ca> 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?
>>
>
> A couple of things to try:
>
> - try re-installing Rtools and R
> - put Rcmd.bat from http://batchfiles.googlecode.com on your path and
> then try re-building
> Rcmd.bat build mypackage
>
> Rcmd.bat will automatically find R and certain other files from the
> registry and temporarily set certain environment variables that may
> compensate for a mis-configured system.
One other thing. I wouldn't use the R-2.12.2 tree for the package
source. Put it somewhere else, e.g. in %userprofile%\R\mypackage
There could be permissions problems if you try to use the \Program
Files area. Then:
cd %userprofile%\R
Rcmd.bat build mypackage
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