Dear all, I'm having difficulties installing a package on Windows. It has only R data files, no code. I've built it on a Linux platform and installed it there without problems. When I tried installing the .tar.gz on Windows, via install.packages, I got the following errors:
Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: 1: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip file 2: In gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open compressed file 'pkgname.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory' After searching in the web, I tried installing the Rtools kit. The problem with install.packages remains, but I managed to install it with R CMD INSTALL. What could be wrong with install.packages? As far as I understood, installing a package without source code shouldn't need the resources in Rtools. Thanks, Erick Fonseca ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
