[Rd] R INSTALL *.tgz fails (minor docs/feature bug) (PR#652)
Duncan Temple Lang
duncan@research.bell-labs.com
Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:43:53 -0400 (EDT)
I believe the problem with this is that the R INSTALL expects version
information in the name of the .tar.gz or .tgz file.
So something like
rmutil_1.0.tgz
and
R CMD INSTALL rmutil_1.0.tgz
avoids that particular problem.
(Specifically, it computes the package name by removing everything
after the first _ in the name of the file.)
It took me a while to find out what was happening some months ago so I
thought I'd save others that hassle.
D.
> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:16:43 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu>
> cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch, R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
> Sender: owner-r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Precedence: bulk
>
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 bobbyo@speakeasy.org wrote:
>
> > R Team,
> >
> > I was attempting to install Lindsey's rmutil.tgz and other
> > non-CRAN packages using 'R INSTALL', for example 'R INSTALL rmutil.tgz'
> > after downloading 'rmutil.tgz' from Lindsey's page (as linked from
> > r-project.org page).
> >
> > Directly using the compressed file as 'R INSTALL rmutil.tgz'
> > failed, though the shell help from 'R INSTALL --help' implied this would
> > work.
> >
> > However, when I simply renamed using 'mv rmutil.tgz rmutil' and
> > then ran 'R INSTALL rmutil', that worked.
> >
> > Adding a note to rename the .tgz files without the .tgz
> > extension, or changing R INSTALL to allow filename extensions when
> > installing would be a nice ease-of-use feature.
> >
> > (by the way, I was able to use R INSTALL rmutil if I unpacked
> > rmutil using 'cat rmutil.tgz | tar xvz' and then ran 'R INSTALL rmutil'.)
>
>
> R INSTALL is somewhat fussy about package format when used on compressed
> files. I don't think Jim Lindsey's packages have ever installed without
> uncompressing first. I have had the same thing happen with local packages
> of functions I've created for convenience.
>
> Fortunately it's fairly painless to uncompress them.
>
> -thomas
>
> Thomas Lumley
> Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
> University of Washington, Seattle
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