I had an identical problem building in R.2.12 with the latest (last week's) Rtools. Interestingly I found that if I used a DOS path in rcmd build (eg rcmd build 0.9\pkg) I got a .tar, but if I replaced it with the unix-like path as in rcmd build 0.9/pkg I got a .tar.gz Weird but workable. S Ellison LGC -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-CMD-build-creates-tar-file-instead-of-tar-gz-file-tp3402687p3427046.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
R CMD build creates tar file instead of tar.gz file
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