[R] Rcmd build -binary -- problem

[Uwe Ligges]

On 23.03.2012 18:43, Stephen Eick wrote:
> Nope.  I tried -- too.  I tried many other variations too.  Any suggestions?
>
> R>Rcmd build --binary thinc
> Rcmd build --binary thinc
> Warning: unknown option '--binary'
> * checking for file 'thinc/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'thinc':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * cleaning src
> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
> Removed empty directory 'thinc/data'
> * building 'thinc_1.0.tar.gz'



Brian Ripley was probably confused by the obvious typo you had in your 
first request. R CMD build --binary is defunct nowadays, please use, as 
suggested for many many years:

R CMD INSTALL --build

in order to produce Windows binaries.

Best,
Uwe Ligges




> I don't understand your comment about "you explicitly asked not to
> send HTML, as you always were..."  Is this in regards to using gmail??
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>  wrote:
>>
>> 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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