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. -- 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.