Hi Dunchan, thanks for your quick answer.
>> Searching the help archives, I found a posting by Uwe Ligges, >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/64574/ >> saying that >> R CMD INSTALL --build >> was preferable to >> R CMD build --binary >> --- in which respect? Would this avoid the error message? > > The main benefit is that links between help pages will be more likely > to be set correctly. Thank you for clarifying this; in fact R CMD INSTALL --build produced the same problem for me (see below). [snip] >> Actually, the corresponding zip-file containes >> a second DESCRIPTION file in the top folder, like a >> bundle, which I think is the culpit, and after >> deleting this installation worked out fine. [snip] > You can't have two files with the same name in the same folder in > Windows. Yes, but this is not what happened: The zip file produced by either R CMD build --binary or R CMD INSTALL --build had the following folder structure (below the top folder, "+" indicating subfolder) +<pkgname> ++chtml ++demo ..... ++R ++R-ex The two DESCRIPTION files were in different folders: the first one in the top folder (at the wrong place), the second one in the <pkgname> folder (at the right place). Both DESCRIPTION files were identical. > I use Rcmd INSTALL --build most of the time and have never seen your > error. so did I.... > I just tried Rcmd build --binary and the file installed okay. > Can you give a recipe to reproduce the error? In fact --- as Brian Ripley pointed out in another reply --- this was a transient effect of R-2.10.0dev between April 26 (my "old" devel version) and today. It appeared for both R CMD build --binary mypkg and R CMD INSTALL --build mypkg The problem did not happen for an older devel version --- R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-02-18 r47956) So apologies for stirring you up with something that had been fixed in the mean-time already. Best, Peter ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
