I've been attempting to create a new R package and recently removed the cygwin installation from my machine since R requires the use of the MingW tools for building an R package with C code. However, when I tried to build a source package, I found the following results:
* removing junk files * building 'Rconifers_0.7-1.tar.gz' tar: /cygdrive/C/usfs/psw_redding/software/current/Rconifers_0.7-1.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: /cygdrive/C/usfs/psw_redding/software/current/Rconifers_0.7-1.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: /cygdrive/C/usfs/psw_redding/software/current/Rconifers_0.7-1.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Rconifers_0.7-1.tar: No such file or directory C:\usfs\psw_redding\software\current> which looks like the cygwin path is hard coded into the build script for the rcmd. I found the if($WINDOWS) { ## workaround for paths in Cygwin tar $filepath =~ s+^([A-Za-x]):+/cygdrive/\1+; } in the build script and don't think it needs to be there since you can use the tar utility that comes with mingw, yes? I replaced the previous chunk of code with: if($WINDOWS) { ## workaround for paths in Cygwin tar $filepath =~ s+^([A-Za-x]):+/\1+; } which has solved the problem. I just don't know how to get this into the latest build or release of R? Jeff. --- Jeff D. Hamann Forest Informatics, Inc. PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421 541-754-1428 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.forestinformatics.com ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel