[R] Build command in library(devtools)

[Steven Yen]

Thanks. I found the reason was Rtools does not run under the new version 
of R. I had to go back to as early as R 3.0.2 (September 2013) to make 
Rtools work.
Any idea for a go-around? Thanks.

On 7/19/2016 4:38 PM, John McKown wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Steven Yen <syen04 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:syen04 at gmail.com>>wrote:
>
>     I recently updated my R and RStudio to the latest version and now the
>     binary option in the "build" command in devtools stops working.
>
>     I went around and used the binary=F option which worked by I get the
>     .tar.gz file instead of the .zip file which I prefer.
>
>     Does anyone understand the following error message:
>
>     status 127
>     running 'zip' failed
>
>
> ​I'm not totally sure, but I think that means that R cannot find the 
> "zip" program in order to run it. ​
>
>
>     ===
>     setwd("A:/R/yenlib/"); library(devtools)
>     #build("yenlib",binary=T) # Thisfailed with an error message
>     build("yenlib",binary=F) # This works
>
>      > build("yenlib",binary=T)
>     "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.1/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file  \
>        --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL \
>        "A:\R\yenlib\yenlib" --build
>
>     * installing to library
>     'C:/Users/syen01/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmp8A7KEw/temp_libpath4074149a528e'
>     * installing *source* package 'yenlib' ...
>     ** R
>     ** data
>     ** preparing package for lazy loading
>     ** help
>     *** installing help indices
>     ** building package indices
>     ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>     *** arch - i386
>     *** arch - x64
>     * MD5 sums
>     Warning: running command '"zip" -r9Xq "A:/R/yenlib/yenlib_16.3.zip"
>     yenlib' had status 127
>     running 'zip' failed
>     * DONE (yenlib)
>     [1] "A:/R/yenlib/yenlib_16.3.zip"
>      >
>
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