On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Andrew Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 12:07:02PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Andrew Robinson wrote: > > > > > I have constructed a package using package.skeleton(), when I try > > > > > > $ R CMD build foo > > > * checking for file 'foo/DESCRIPTION' ... OK > > > * preparing 'foo': > > > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK > > > * cleaning src > > > * removing junk files > > > tar: Option -L is not permitted in mode -x > > > Error: cannot open file 'foo/DESCRIPTION' for reading > > > > > > foo/DESCRIPTION exists and the permissions are correct. The same > > > command works under Linux Fedora 2. The man pages on each OS imply > > > that tar differs across the two platforms. Does anyone have any > > > thoughts on a work-around? > > > > No, because R does not use tar -L (which is to do with tape lengths on GNU > > tar). > > > > It does use tar chf and tar xhf. The h modifier would appear to be > > applicable only to dumps, so at a wild guess the error message means -h is > > not permitted. Try replacing xhf by xf. > > Yes, that works. For the record: I removed the 'h' options from all > tar calls in
You do in principle want them for the chf calls. > > /usr/local/lib/R/bin/build > > Thanks for your speedy and accurate response. > > Andrew -- 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://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
