Hi: I have have taken over from a colleague who prepared an R package and failed to build it on Windows. I am doing this with unix as I am a mac user. Below is the output I get when I use the build command: [gattuso:unix/R/CO2.Rcheck] gattuso% R CMD build CO2 * checking for file 'CO2/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'CO2': * checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... NO * use '--force' to overwrite the existing 'INDEX' * removing junk files * building 'CO2_1.0.tar.gz' tar: Unable to access /Users/gattuso/documents/unix/R/CO2.Rcheck/CO2_1.0.tar <No such file or directory> tar: WARNING! These file names were not selected: /Users/gattuso/documents/unix/R/CO2.Rcheck/CO2_1.0.tar CO2_1.0.tar: No such file or directory I have read the R-exts.pdf document but did not find what I do wrong. In fact, there is little information on the use of R CMD build, both in the R-exts.pdf document and the man (R CMD build --help) pages. Do I need to make the CO2_1.0.tar file myself? Your help would be much appreciated! jp -- Jean-Pierre Gattuso | mailto:gattuso at obs-vlfr.fr | http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/~gattuso
"Gattuso, Jean-Pierre" wrote:> > Hi: > > I have have taken over from a colleague who > prepared an R package and failed to build it on > Windows. I am doing this with unix as I am a mac > user. Below is the output I get when I use the > build command: > > [gattuso:unix/R/CO2.Rcheck] gattuso% R CMD build CO2 > * checking for file 'CO2/DESCRIPTION' ... OK > * preparing 'CO2': > * checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... NO > * use '--force' to overwrite the existing 'INDEX' > * removing junk files > * building 'CO2_1.0.tar.gz' > tar: Unable to access > /Users/gattuso/documents/unix/R/CO2.Rcheck/CO2_1.0.tar > <No such file or directory> > tar: WARNING! These file names were not selected: > /Users/gattuso/documents/unix/R/CO2.Rcheck/CO2_1.0.tar > CO2_1.0.tar: No such file or directory >Looks like R_HOME is set to an invalid directory. Regards Michael -- Michael T. Mader Institute for Bioinformatics/MIPS, GSF Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1 D-80937 Neuherberg 0049-89-3187-3576 In statistics, some people worry about not seeing the forest for the trees. I like to look at the bark. (C. R. Blyth, 1967)
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Gattuso, Jean-Pierre wrote:> Hi: > > I have have taken over from a colleague who > prepared an R package and failed to build it on > Windows. I am doing this with unix as I am a mac > user. Below is the output I get when I use the > build command:This looks like what happens under Mac OS X, where tar doesn't recognise the -X flag for eXcluding files [it's used for something else]. You can confirm by checking man tar. I don't know if this will get fixed for 1.8.0, but a work-around is to get GNU tar. -thomas> [gattuso:unix/R/CO2.Rcheck] gattuso% R CMD build CO2 > * checking for file 'CO2/DESCRIPTION' ... OK > * preparing 'CO2': > * checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... NO > * use '--force' to overwrite the existing 'INDEX' > * removing junk files > * building 'CO2_1.0.tar.gz' > tar: Unable to access > /Users/gattuso/documents/unix/R/CO2.Rcheck/CO2_1.0.tar > <No such file or directory> > tar: WARNING! These file names were not selected: > /Users/gattuso/documents/unix/R/CO2.Rcheck/CO2_1.0.tar > CO2_1.0.tar: No such file or directory > > > I have read the R-exts.pdf document but did not > find what I do wrong. In fact, there is little > information on the use of R CMD build, both in > the R-exts.pdf document and the man (R CMD build > --help) pages. > > Do I need to make the CO2_1.0.tar file myself? > > Your help would be much appreciated! > > jp > -- > > Jean-Pierre Gattuso | mailto:gattuso at obs-vlfr.fr > | http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/~gattuso > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle