On 11/19/2007 10:37 AM, Fernando Miguez wrote: > Hi all, > > R CMD check does not work for me under Windows. This is the error > > R CMD check mypackage.tar.gz > * checking for working latex ... OK > tar: and: Not found in archive > tar: Settings/miguez/ ... /00_pkg_src: Not found in archive > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > Error: cannot untar mypackage.tar.gz > > I know tar is available because R CMD build created the tarball in the > first place and man tar works. > > I'm mostly working in Linux but if I can fix this it would be nice. Ok > now I'm thinking that I might have an old version of perl installed and > this might be the problem. Any suggestions/explanations are welcome.
Old/bad versions of some utility are the likely cause. The Rtools collection contains a custom version of tar; if your PATH is finding a different one first, that could be the trouble. Take a look at the "Windows Toolset" section of the admin manual, and make sure you follow the instructions about path order (and the rest, too). It is possible to use a different PATH than the one in the manual, but there are many more choices that fail than there are that succeed. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
