Re: [R] trouble with installing R-2.12.0 from source on Windows

2010-10-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Having managed to reproduce this with the current Rtools212, I needed tar -zxvf --no-same-owner R-2.12.0.tar.gz (or -xf: the 'z' is optional, and --no-same-permissions would also be a useful sanity check). Although the messages are unclear, they do seem merely to be notices not errors. On

Re: [R] trouble with installing R-2.12.0 from source on Windows

2010-10-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Erin Hodgess wrote: Dear R People: I'm trying to install R-2.12.0 from source on a Netbook with Windows XP. I have installed the Rtools.exe (version 2.12) However, when I enter "tar xvfz R-2.12.0.tar.gz" I keep getting the message "cannot change owneship to uid 501, gid

[R] trouble with installing R-2.12.0 from source on Windows

2010-10-15 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: I'm trying to install R-2.12.0 from source on a Netbook with Windows XP. I have installed the Rtools.exe (version 2.12) However, when I enter "tar xvfz R-2.12.0.tar.gz" I keep getting the message "cannot change owneship to uid 501, gid 20 invalid argument" Has anyone else run ac