To follow up (because I received a few emails off-list), things work now. I'm not sure what I did differently. In case it is helpful:
I reinstalled R tools, and edited by path so that C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Program files\R\R-2.13.1\bin;C:\Program Files\HTML Help Workshop was at the beginning. With this, my attempts at package creation worked. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Juliet Hannah <juliet.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to build a package using windows xp. Here is the error I am > getting: > > R CMD build myfunctions > > * checking for file 'myfunctions/DESCRIPTION' ... OK > * preparing 'myfunctions': > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK > * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files > * checking for empty or unneeded directories > * building 'myfunctions_1.0.tar.gz' > ERROR > packaging into .tar.gz failed > > Could anyone suggest possible things to check? Thanks. > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) > Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.