On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Harolddd wrote: > > Giovanni Petris wrote: > > > >> I wanted to share with a colleague a few R functions that I wrote. To > >> this purpose, I created a small package on my machine (Unix) and > >> emailed it to her. Now she is having troubles installing the package > >> on her Windows machine. It seems that on her side, install.packages > >> looks for a "zip" file - while I have created a "tar.gz" file. I tried > >> to build the package with the --use-zip options but that didn't work. > > Your Windows using friend can convert the "tar.gz" file to > "zip" using the open-source utility "7-zip". Available at > http://www.7-zip.org/ It doesn't conform to many Windows > conventions, so reading the help files will be necessary. > I found that it was necessary to extract a "tar.gz" file > twice, once to extract from "gz" and again for "tar".
That's pointless as the .zip file is a binary distribution and the .tar.gz file is a source distribution. (There are plenty of Windows tools to unpack .tar.gz files, including the tar in our Rtools distribution.) This Q is answered in the rw-FAQ, Q3.1. -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
