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...gz > | now leaves only '.BBSoptions' as hidden file. > > No, still wrong. As Simon said, we all are supposed to use 'R CMD build xps' > to create the tarball. "Back in the day ..." straight tar cfz ... worked, it > more or less stopped _many_ years ago. Cf TheOneManualThatMatters: > > 1.3.1 Checking packages > ----------------------- > > Using 'R CMD check', the R package checker, one can test whether > _source_ R packages work correctly. It can be run on one or more > directories, or compressed package 'tar' arch...

Dear Simon, Thank you very much for your help, it did solve my problems!! Great! I have googled COPYFILE_DISABLE and found the following site which does explain the issue with tar on Mac OS X, see: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9665/create-tar-archive-of-a-directory-except-for-hidden-files Instead of doing: $tar czf xps_1.29.2.tar.gz xps I did now: $COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 tar czf

...MD check xps_1.29.2.tar.gz | now leaves only '.BBSoptions' as hidden file. No, still wrong. As Simon said, we all are supposed to use 'R CMD build xps' to create the tarball. "Back in the day ..." straight tar cfz ... worked, it more or less stopped _many_ years ago. Cf TheOneManualThatMatters: 1.3.1 Checking packages ----------------------- Using 'R CMD check', the R package checker, one can test whether _source_ R packages work correctly. It can be run on one or more directories, or compressed package 'tar' archives with extension '.tar.gz...

...ves only '.BBSoptions' as hidden file. >> >> No, still wrong. As Simon said, we all are supposed to use 'R CMD build xps' >> to create the tarball. "Back in the day ..." straight tar cfz ... worked, it >> more or less stopped _many_ years ago. Cf TheOneManualThatMatters: >> >> 1.3.1 Checking packages >> ----------------------- >> >> Using 'R CMD check', the R package checker, one can test whether >> _source_ R packages work correctly. It can be run on one or more >> directories, or compressed p...

...ves only '.BBSoptions' as hidden file. >> >> No, still wrong. As Simon said, we all are supposed to use 'R CMD build xps' >> to create the tarball. "Back in the day ..." straight tar cfz ... worked, it >> more or less stopped _many_ years ago. Cf TheOneManualThatMatters: >> >> 1.3.1 Checking packages >> ----------------------- >> >> Using 'R CMD check', the R package checker, one can test whether >> _source_ R packages work correctly. It can be run on one or more >> directories, or compressed p...