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 ****************************************************************************************************************************** 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 -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at 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.