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

[Ian Schiller]

> (Rcmd.bat is not working so I assume there is something I'm doing wrong)

I'd just like to let everyone knows that Rcmd.bat IS working properly after all.  I had messed with the PATH "environmental variable".  In fact, like Gabor Grothendieck pointed out to me, one can just copy the Rcmd.bat file into the Rtools/bin folder for example.  This will prevent any change to the path and avoid typographical errors.

Thanks!

Ian 

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IAN SCHILLER, M.Sc.

Statistical research assistant, 
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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Email: ian.schiller at clinepi.mcgill.ca


-----Original Message-----
From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:40 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 1:28 PM, Ian Schiller
<Ian.Schiller at clinepi.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> 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
>

You likely have the Hide extensions options enabled on your Windows system.

Click the Windows start button in the lower left of the display and
enter the words: Folder Options. When the Folder Options screen comes
up on its View tab ensure that that Hide extensions option is turned
off.


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