Dear all, I tried to build a package from source, and ran into a problem.>R CMD build RQDA* checking for file 'RQDA/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'RQDA': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK ERROR copying to build directory failed I searched and found this http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/tar-problem-when-using-R-CMD-build-on-Windows-td2734636.html> SET TAR=tar --no-same-owner >R CMD build RQDAthe same error. The R sessionInfo is:> sessionInfo()R version 2.12.0 Patched (2010-10-28 r53459) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of China.936 [2] LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of China.936 [3] LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of China.936 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of China.936 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base -- Wincent Ronggui HUANG (Ph.D.) City University of Hong Kong http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html
This probably means you do not have Rtools installed, see here : http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/installer.html greetings, Remko -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/can-not-built-a-package-tp3023089p3023170.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Actually, I did install Rtools212. On 2 November 2010 12:27, Remko Duursma <remkoduursma at gmail.com> wrote:> > > This probably means you do not have Rtools installed, see here : > > http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/installer.html > > > > greetings, > Remko > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/can-not-built-a-package-tp3023089p3023170.html > Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >-- Wincent Ronggui HUANG (Ph.D.) City University of Hong Kong http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html