Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Harolddd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Giovanni Petris wrote: ... > > >> 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". > > Ack! No! > > Windows packages are *binary* packages, Unix's are *source* packages.
Ooops, wait a minute. We can also build binaries on Unix with "R CMD build --binary", and they *will* be .tar.gz files. I get a rather peculiar error message from Perl if I try, but I do get the file and it seems that the content is equivalent to that in the zip file I described. (Of course you can always convert .tar.gz to .zip on Unix: just unpack with tar and repack with zip -- just be careful where you do it or you'll end up overwriting files!) ... > used to work, but I'm not sure it still does) is to install the > package under Unix and then use zip to wrap up the installed files: > > E.g. > > mkdir tmp > R CMD INSTALL mypkg -l tmp > cd tmp > zip -lr mypkg mypkg -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [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
