> You likely have the Hide extensions options enabled on your Windows system.
Yes you're right! Guys, I thank you all for your precious help! 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 1:40 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 1:28 PM, Ian Schiller <ian.schil...@clinepi.mcgill.ca> wrote: > 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 > You likely have the Hide extensions options enabled on your Windows system. Click the Windows start button in the lower left of the display and enter the words: Folder Options. When the Folder Options screen comes up on its View tab ensure that that Hide extensions option is turned off. -- 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.
