Message-ID: <c968588d0710041314l6971662bv6dfcf1e5004e8395@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2007-10-04T20:14:18Z
From: Kevin Wright
Subject: Building package with R 2.6.0 on Windows/Cygwin gives error with tar
My setup:
Windows XP, R-2.6.0, Cygwin (not the Rtools version)
When I tried to build a package, I was given this message:
tar: c\:/X/Rpkgs/Drydown_1.41.tar: Cannot open: Input/Output error
Even manually typing the following caused the same error:
tar chf 'c:/X/Rpkgs/Drydown_1.41.tar' Drydown
I looked at the 2.5.1 and 2.6.0 build scripts. After restoring this
section to the 2.6.0 build script:
## workaround for paths in Cygwin tar
$filepath =~ s+^([A-Za-z]):+/cygdrive/\1+;
}
then $filepath evaluates to
/cygdrive/c/X/Rpkgs/Drydown_1.41.tar
and I was able to build packages again.
(Posted in case someone else has the same problem and/or finds this useful.)
Kevin Wright