I think, in your case the problem might be the version of Rtools. If you want to use R > 3.0.x, you also have to use newer versions of Rtools [1].
HTH, Rainer Hurling [1] https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ Am 21.07.16 um 02:24 schrieb Steven Yen: > Here is what I found. I had to go back to as early as R 3.0.3 (March, > 2014) along with Rtools30.exe that works with that version of R, in > order for devtools to work right. With other/later version of R, I end > up building a package with > library(devtools); build("yenlib",binary=F) > with no error message but the package does not run correctly; or with > library(devtools); build("yenlib",binary=T) > which deliver an error that says zip command failed (bevtools calls > Rtools when binary=T). > > Updated versions are good, but what's the use if they do not work for a > situation like this. > > Any help/insight would be appreciated. > > On 7/20/2016 10:08 AM, Steven Yen wrote: >> On 7/19/2016 4:38 PM, John McKown wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Steven Yen <sye...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:sye...@gmail.com>>wrote: >>> >>> I recently updated my R and RStudio to the latest version and >>> now the >>> binary option in the "build" command in devtools stops working. >>> >>> I went around and used the binary=F option which worked by I get >>> the >>> .tar.gz file instead of the .zip file which I prefer. >>> >>> Does anyone understand the following error message: >>> >>> status 127 >>> running 'zip' failed >>> >>> >>> I'm not totally sure, but I think that means that R cannot find the >>> "zip" program in order to run it. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
