My guess is the that problem is that the current directory is under c:\Documents and Settings\miguel, and that is not supported.
Try using a directory without spaces in its name. On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11/19/2007 10:37 AM, Fernando Miguez wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> R CMD check does not work for me under Windows. This is the error >> >> R CMD check mypackage.tar.gz >> * checking for working latex ... OK >> tar: and: Not found in archive >> tar: Settings/miguez/ ... /00_pkg_src: Not found in archive >> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >> Error: cannot untar mypackage.tar.gz >> >> I know tar is available because R CMD build created the tarball in the >> first place and man tar works. >> >> I'm mostly working in Linux but if I can fix this it would be nice. Ok >> now I'm thinking that I might have an old version of perl installed and >> this might be the problem. Any suggestions/explanations are welcome. > > Old/bad versions of some utility are the likely cause. The Rtools > collection contains a custom version of tar; if your PATH is finding a > different one first, that could be the trouble. > > Take a look at the "Windows Toolset" section of the admin manual, and > make sure you follow the instructions about path order (and the rest, too). > > It is possible to use a different PATH than the one in the manual, but > there are many more choices that fail than there are that succeed. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
