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
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