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Hi R-helpers, I am trying to build a package under FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0 using R Version 2.1.1. I have constructed a package using package.skeleton(), when I try $ R CMD build foo * checking for file 'foo/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'foo': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * cleaning src * removing junk files tar: Option -L is not permitted in mode -x Error:

...e_path($filepath), + "$pkgname"))); + my $tmpdir = R_tempfile("Rbuild"); + rmtree($tmpdir) if(-d $tmpdir); + mkdir("$tmpdir", 0755) + or die "Error: cannot create directory '$tmpdir'\n"; + chdir($tmpdir); + ## was xhf, but there are no symbolic links here and that is invalid + ## on FreeBSD, see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html + R_system(join(" ", + ("$tar xf", +...

Full_Name: Byron Ellis Version: R 1.9.0 (and 2.0.0) OS: Linux (Redhat Fedora Core) Submission from: (NULL) (140.247.241.197) It appears that `R CMD build` cannot handle spaces in the path when building packages for distribution. For instance: [ellis@net-78815 ~/Bayesian Networks]$ R CMD build bnsl * checking for file 'bnsl/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'bnsl': * cleaning src *

...a. (PR#8139) o window.default() had an incorrect tolerance and so sometimes created too short a series if 'start' or 'end' were zero. o Some (fairly pointless) cases of reshape left a temporary id variable in the result (PR#8152) o R CMD build used 'tar xhf' which is invalid on FreeBSD systems (and followed tar chf, so there could be no symbolic links in the tarball). o Subassignment of length zero vectors to NULL gave garbage answers. (PR#8157) o Automatic coercion of raw vectors to lists was missing, so for a list (or data fram...

...a. (PR#8139) o window.default() had an incorrect tolerance and so sometimes created too short a series if 'start' or 'end' were zero. o Some (fairly pointless) cases of reshape left a temporary id variable in the result (PR#8152) o R CMD build used 'tar xhf' which is invalid on FreeBSD systems (and followed tar chf, so there could be no symbolic links in the tarball). o Subassignment of length zero vectors to NULL gave garbage answers. (PR#8157) o Automatic coercion of raw vectors to lists was missing, so for a list (or data fram...