Re: [R] creating a distinct zip file

2015-02-21 Thread Jeff Newmiller
What is a "compiled zip"? There is a warning against using that term in section 1 of the Writing R Extensions documentation, along with a discussion of why it is ambiguous at best. Can you read that and clarify your statement? Since you make this assertion that R CMD INSTALL --build does not d

Re: [R] creating a distinct zip file

2015-02-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 21/02/2015 2:47 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote: > I have Windows, but the "R CMD INSTALL --build pack" does not produce a > compiled zip. What does it do? Can you show us a transcript? Duncan Murdoch > > Thanks, > Erin > > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Peter Langfelder < > peter.langfel...@g

Re: [R] creating a distinct zip file

2015-02-21 Thread Erin Hodgess
I have Windows, but the "R CMD INSTALL --build pack" does not produce a compiled zip. Thanks, Erin On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Peter Langfelder < peter.langfel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Rolf Turner > wrote: > > On 21/02/15 15:02, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > >> >

Re: [R] creating a distinct zip file

2015-02-21 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 21/02/15 15:02, Jeff Newmiller wrote: >> >> R CMD INSTALL --build packagename > > > That will create a *.tar.gz file, not a *.zip file. The latter being > what Erin wanted, if I understand correctly. It depends on her system (I don't see

Re: [R] creating a distinct zip file

2015-02-21 Thread peter dalgaard
> On 21 Feb 2015, at 18:01 , Erin Hodgess wrote: > > This is not for CRAN, just for someone else. > > > It doesn't need to be submitted. > As I understand it, it doesn't need to be submitted in order to be submitted... (to CRAN, winbuilder respectively). Just make sure it satisfies the for

Re: [R] creating a distinct zip file

2015-02-21 Thread Erin Hodgess
This is not for CRAN, just for someone else. It doesn't need to be submitted. Thanks, Erin On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 21/02/2015 07:31, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > >> On Windows it builds a zip file. If you are on Linux, you might [1] need >> [2]. >> >> [1] ht

Re: [R] creating a distinct zip file

2015-02-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 21/02/2015 07:31, Jeff Newmiller wrote: On Windows it builds a zip file. If you are on Linux, you might [1] need [2]. [1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-January/063596.html [2] http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contributed/cross-build.pdf But the first is from 2005 and the second is

Re: [R] creating a distinct zip file

2015-02-20 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Windows it builds a zip file. If you are on Linux, you might [1] need [2]. [1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-January/063596.html [2] http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contributed/cross-build.pdf --- Jeff Newmiller

Re: [R] creating a distinct zip file

2015-02-20 Thread Rolf Turner
On 21/02/15 15:02, Jeff Newmiller wrote: R CMD INSTALL --build packagename That will create a *.tar.gz file, not a *.zip file. The latter being what Erin wanted, if I understand correctly. I have worked around the problem in the past with a shell script like unto: #! /bin/csh set vnum = `gre

Re: [R] creating a distinct zip file

2015-02-20 Thread Jeff Newmiller
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[R] creating a distinct zip file

2015-02-20 Thread Erin Hodgess
Hello yet again. I am trying to create a zip file for a friend who has a Windows machine. He needs to access this via the "local zip file" packages option. When I use R CMD INSTALL --compile-both, it produces an item in the library tree (as promised). However, I would like to have an actual .zi