R help - Jul 2003 - Rcmd nuisance (windows XP)

Hola!

When running 
Rcmd build --binary <path-to-package>, 

the run always end with
  
     	zip warning: name not matched: DESCRIPTION

The package seems to work fine. This happens whith all packages, mine 
as well as CRAN ones. 

Whats happening?

Kjetil Halvorsen

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote:
> Hola!
> 
> When running 
> Rcmd build --binary <path-to-package>, 
> 
> the run always end with
>   
>      	zip warning: name not matched: DESCRIPTION
> 
> The package seems to work fine. This happens whith all packages, mine 
> as well as CRAN ones. 
> 
> Whats happening?
Adding versioned installs broke many things, and this is a symptom.
Which version of R is this?  I think you will find it is fixed in R-devel
and R-patched, and that you can ignore the warning in 1.7.1.

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