POSIX-style execute permission isn't a Windows concept, so it was
fortuitous this ever worked. One possibility is that Cygwin was
involved, and a Cygwin emulation got set when tar unpacked the file and
converted back to the tar representation when Cygwin tar produced the
tarball. (The tar in Rtools is a fixed version of Cygwin tar, fixed to
use Windows file paths.)
What are those screen shots of?
R 2.5.2 was a very long time ago. A recent change is
• R CMD build by default uses the internal method of tar() to
prepare the tarball. This is more likely to produce a tarball
compatible with R CMD INSTALL and R CMD check: an external tar
program, including options, can be specified _via_ the
environment variable R_BUILD_TAR.
Can you try using an external tar? (Using the internal tar on Windows
was first trialled in 2.15.3.)
On 14/04/2013 22:17, John Fox wrote:
Dear list members,
I'm experiencing a file permissions problem with a package built under
Windows with R 3.0.0. I've encountered the problem on two Windows computers,
one running Windows 7 and the other Windows 8, and both when I build the
package under RStudio or directly in a Windows console via "R CMD build".
In particular, the cleanup file for the package, which as I understand it
should have permissions set at rwx-r-r, instead has permissions rw-rw-rw.
I've attached two .png screen shots showing how the permissions are set when
the package is built under R 2.5.2 and R 3.0.0.
I think that my two Windows systems are reasonably vanilla. Here are the
system and session info from R 3.0.0 run from a Windows console:
Sys.info()
sysname release
"Windows" "7 x64"
version nodename
"build 7601, Service Pack 1" "JOHN-DELL-XPS"
machine login
"x86" "User"
user effective_user
"User" "User"
sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
I have the latest Rtools30 installed and on my path:
Sys.which("tar.exe")
tar.exe
"c:\\Rtools\\bin\\tar.exe"
Is this a general problem or is it possible that there's something about my
Windows configurations that's causing it?
Any information would be appreciated.
John
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John Fox
Senator McMaster Professor of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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