[R] Rcmd build -binary -- problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 22/03/2012 17:33, Stephen Eick wrote:
> Hi.  I need a bit of help.  I'm running Windows 7 and "out of the box"
> versions of Rtools and R (version 2.14.2) and am trying to compile a
> package that worked before. When I run the command:
>
>> Rcmd build -binary mypackage
>> Warning: unknown option '-binary'
>
> i get a warning and it creates the tar.gz file but not the zip file like
> before.  Something has changed with the more recent versions of R.  Any
> suggestions on how to make the .zip file?

Nothing has changed.  It is --binary (two hyphens) as it always was (and 
you explicitly asked not to send HTML, as you always were).

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