zip.unpack() crashes R (PR#2818)
-----Original Message----- From: r-devel-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-devel-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley Sent: den 24 april 2003 18:49 To: hb@maths.lth.se Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch; R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk Subject: Re: [Rd] zip.unpack() crashes R (PR#2818) On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 hb@maths.lth.se wrote:
Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson Version: R v1.7.0 OS: WinXP Pro Submission from: (NULL) (130.235.2.229) There seems to be an upper limit of the number of files
(approx 1000
files) a
Yes, 500 topics.
OK.
zip-file can contain when unpacking it with zip.unpack().
This results
in an R crash. This bug is urgent since install.packages()
relies on
zip.unpack() and too big packages/bundles won't install with the current R v1.7.0 for Windows.
Whyever should a R package have over 1000 files? I think you are not understanding how to use the --use-zip options.
My --use-zip was indeed broken (HTML Help Workshop was not in the PATH anymore -> hhc not found -> make partly failed -> use-zip was not ran, but package was still created but without the *.chm file). Fixing that brought down the number of files I have quite a bit. However, one can still not do anything about all the HTML files. You are right, even with a large number of HTML help files, a package will probably not contain > 500 files in total in --use-zip is used, but a bundle may certainly do it. Using --use-zip my bundle contains 580 files and then I still have a lot of documentation left to do. If bundles will still be around (I have heard rumours packages will only be supported), then I think 500 files is a too small limit.
Also, look at options("unzip").
I am aware of the option to use an external unzipper.
Why is this bug `urgent': it has been around for 14 months, and no one else has encountered a problem?
The moment I sent it I realized that 'urgent' sounded too requesting, I just wanted to point out that I believe installations of package/bundles should never be broken since it is such a basic functionality needed. Thanks for your help Henrik Bengtsson
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