Try setting TAR to 'tar --force-local'. This should be the default under Windows, but a typo was introduced in R 2.6.0 after it was tested.
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Kevin Wright wrote: > My setup: > Windows XP, R-2.6.0, Cygwin (not the Rtools version) > > When I tried to build a package, I was given this message: > tar: c\:/X/Rpkgs/Drydown_1.41.tar: Cannot open: Input/Output error > > Even manually typing the following caused the same error: > tar chf 'c:/X/Rpkgs/Drydown_1.41.tar' Drydown > > I looked at the 2.5.1 and 2.6.0 build scripts. After restoring this > section to the 2.6.0 build script: > ## workaround for paths in Cygwin tar > $filepath =~ s+^([A-Za-z]):+/cygdrive/\1+; > } > then $filepath evaluates to > /cygdrive/c/X/Rpkgs/Drydown_1.41.tar > and I was able to build packages again. > > (Posted in case someone else has the same problem and/or finds this useful.) It WOULD have been useful if you had tested in the alpha/beta/RC period and not immediately after release. (I believe this has been asked of you before.) -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
