On 02-Nov-04 Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > [...] > [Analogously, R CMD INSTALL will not install .tgz files on Unix, > even though some people distribute them: they are (equally) not > a supported format.]
Hmmm. Maybe I'm out of date (R 1.8.0) but my Linux /usr/lib/R/bin/INSTALL has: if test -f "${1}"; then pkgname=`basename "${1}"` ## Also allow for 'package.tgz' ... pkgname=`basename "${pkgname}" .tgz` pkgname=`echo "${pkgname}" | sed 's/_.*//'` ## ... gzip -dc "${1}" | (cd "${tmpdir}" && ${TAR} -mxf -) which looks to me as though it should cope fine with *.tgz as well as with *.tar.gz, since the 'gzip -dc' doesn't care what the name "${1}" is, and the ${TAR} is getting the unzipped output on stdin. And in any case it looks as though 'pkgname' will come out right whatever follows the first "_." in the tar file name (so long as the file name is of the form pkgname_.*). Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 [NB: New number!] Date: 02-Nov-04 Time: 10:03:26 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel