Example: CDNmoney_2003.9-2.tar.gz (in the archives section of CRAN) The package maintainer forgot to remove the subdirectory ./data/create. Nevertheless, R INSTALL CDNmoney works smoothly on UNix/Linux by just omitting that directory. On Windows we get: ---------- Making package CDNmoney ------------ adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION installing R files installing demos installing inst files installing data files cp: omitting directory `data/create' make[2]: *** [t:/R/library/CDNmoney/data] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make: *** [pkg-CDNmoney] Error 2 *** Installation of CDNmoney failed *** I think it is desirable to unify. The question is which way... Opinions? Uwe Ligges --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i386-pc-mingw32 arch = i386 os = mingw32 system = i386, mingw32 status major = 1 minor = 9.0 year = 2004 month = 04 day = 12 language = R Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381) Service Pack 6 Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics, package:utils, Autoloads, package:base