[R] R CMD build creates tar file instead of tar.gz file

[Ian Schiller]

Ok guys.  First thanks again for your help.  It is very appreciated.  Now here's the thing.  I downloaded the Rcmd.bat and included in the path.  I've also changed the location of the package source and ran R CMD build mypackage (Rcmd.bat is not working so I assume there is something I'm doing wrong).  However, the warnings are now gone.  The file produced is still a tar (and not tar.gz), but when I look at it within the command prompt windows using dir, it says that the file is a tar.gz.  I don't know what is the meaning of that.
Here is the output of the command prompt



C:\R>R CMD build HSROC
* checking for file 'HSROC/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'HSROC':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* building 'HSROC_1.0.0.tar.gz'

Directory of C:\R

03/24/2011  01:16 PM    <DIR>          .
03/24/2011  01:16 PM    <DIR>          ..
03/24/2011  01:08 PM    <DIR>          HSROC
03/24/2011  01:16 PM            47,976 HSROC_1.0.0.tar.gz
               1 File(s)         47,976 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  949,472,227,328 bytes free

Ian


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IAN SCHILLER, M.Sc.

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Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Center
Assistant de recherche en statistiques,
Département d'Épidémiologie Clinique, Centre Universitaire de Santé Mcgill

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:00 PM
To: Ian Schiller
Cc: Duncan Murdoch; r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] R CMD build creates tar file instead of tar.gz file

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Ian Schiller
> <Ian.Schiller at clinepi.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>> Thanks for your prompt answer Mr. Ripley.  It appears the version of tar I'm using is exactly the same as the one included in the latest Rtools.  I noticed that the Rtools/bin directory was not first in path, so I corrected this.  However, I'm still not able to create a tar.gz file with the R CMD build command.   Then my question would be the following.  If I submit my package to CRAN do you know if it needs to be tar.gz or will a tar file be accepted?
>>
>
> A couple of things to try:
>
> - try re-installing Rtools and R
> - put Rcmd.bat from http://batchfiles.googlecode.com on your path and
> then try re-building
> Rcmd.bat build mypackage
>
> Rcmd.bat will automatically find R and certain other files from the
> registry and temporarily set certain environment variables that may
> compensate for a mis-configured system.


One other thing. I wouldn't use the R-2.12.2 tree for the package
source.  Put it somewhere else, e.g. in %userprofile%\R\mypackage
There could be permissions problems if you try to use the \Program
Files area.  Then:

cd %userprofile%\R
Rcmd.bat build mypackage


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