R help - Oct 2010 - trouble with installing R-2.12.0 from source on Windows

Dear R People:

I'm trying to install R-2.12.0 from source on a Netbook with Windows XP.

I have installed the Rtools.exe (version 2.12)

However, when I enter "tar xvfz R-2.12.0.tar.gz"

I keep getting the message "cannot change owneship to uid 501, gid 20
invalid argument"

Has anyone else run across this, please?

Thanks,
Sincerely,
Erin


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Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Erin Hodgess wrote:
> Dear R People:
>
> I'm trying to install R-2.12.0 from source on a Netbook with Windows
XP.
>
> I have installed the Rtools.exe (version 2.12)
>
> However, when I enter "tar xvfz R-2.12.0.tar.gz"
>
> I keep getting the message "cannot change owneship to uid 501, gid 20
> invalid argument"
>
> Has anyone else run across this, please?
Yes.  Do you have an administrative account?  It seems in that version 
of Cygwin such accounts automatically get the -p flag added to tar.

I'm still using an earlier Rtools (Rtools 2.12 is moving, and the 
change to Cygwin 1.7 is recent).  But in theory

tar --no-same-permissions

should undo this.  I think the message may be harmless, though.
>
> Thanks,
> Sincerely,
> Erin
>
>
> -- 
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
>
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