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 <sye...@gmail.com > <mailto:sye...@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" > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > -- > "Worry was nothing more than paying interest on a loan that a man may > never borrow" > > From: "Quest for the White Wind" by Alan Black > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.