[R] Cannot change R package name in Windows and cannot install an R package in Mac OS Yosemite

[Uwe Ligges]

On 11.11.2014 23:05, Michael Peng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am now writing an R package LFSpro. I build it for both Mac OS and
> Windows.
>
> For Windows, the binary package name is LFSpro_1.0.3.zip. It can be
> installed into R successfully. But when I changed the name to
> LFSpro_1.0.3.Windows.zip, an error occurred:
>
> Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname,"DESCRIPTION"), c("Package",
> "TYPE")):cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname,"DESCRIPTION") c("Package", "TYPE")) cannot
> open compressed file 'LFSpro_1.0.3.Windows/DESCRIPTION', probable reason
> 'No such file or directory'
>
> Why we cannot change the package name in windows?

Since the filename is an esential part of the package used by the tools.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


> The R package is build on http://win-builder.r-project.org/. There is no
> error when built it on http://win-builder.r-project.org/. We installed it
> in Windows 7 and 8.1. The R version is 3.1.2.
>
> For Mac OS, someone tested it on Yosemite, an error occurred:
>
> R[1588:958444] plugin com.getdropbox.dropbox.garcon interrupted
>
> I googled the error message, it seems that there is an incompatibility
> between R and Yosemite. But when I tested it by myself on Yosemite, there
> is no such an error. The user is in Brazil, and he is not very familiar
> with R. I don't know why this error occurs.
>
> Is anyone has any idea why there is this error message. The R package is
> build in R 3.1.1 and Mac OS X 10.6.8.
>
> If anyone want to test the R package, you can download it from
> http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/main/LFSpro
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> Best,
> Gang
>
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