No need, got it now :-) Thanks M -----Original Message----- From: michael watson (IAH-C) Sent: 19 November 2004 14:06 To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Building package on Linux and Windows Hi OK, final stretch now, thank you to everyone who has helped! (hopefully) final question - what does R CMD build actually do that tar/gzip and WinZip do not? I have successfully used R CMD build to create a .tar.gz version of my package, which installs well and works under Linux - hurray! I naively thought that all I had to do now was create a .zip version (using something like WinZip) and it would work on Windows too - wrong! On Windows I get: Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning messages: 1: error -1 in extracting from zip file 2: cannot open file `coXpress/DESCRIPTION' I didn't run R CMD build on Windows because I don't have "suitable versions of Unix tools including make, sh, rm, sed, awk,mkdir, echo, cp and cat; we have packaged a set at http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/tools.zip.". Do I really have to install all of these on my Windows machine to build a package? Asked another way - I have a linux .tar.gz file which works, how do I make a windows version? Thanks in advance! Mick ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Building package on Linux and Windows
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