Having managed to reproduce this with the current Rtools212, I needed
tar -zxvf --no-same-owner R-2.12.0.tar.gz
(or -xf: the 'z' is optional, and --no-same-permissions would also be
a useful sanity check).
Although the messages are unclear, they do seem merely to be notices
not errors.
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Erin Hodgess wrote:
Dear R People:
I'm trying to install R-2.12.0 from source on a Netbook with Windows XP.
I have installed the Rtools.exe (version 2.12)
However, when I enter "tar xvfz R-2.12.0.tar.gz"
I keep getting the message "cannot change owneship to uid 501, gid 20
invalid argument"
Has anyone else run across this, please?
Yes. Do you have an administrative account? It seems in that version of
Cygwin such accounts automatically get the -p flag added to tar.
I'm still using an earlier Rtools (Rtools 2.12 is moving, and the change to
Cygwin 1.7 is recent). But in theory
tar --no-same-permissions
should undo this. I think the message may be harmless, though.
Thanks,
Sincerely,
Erin
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Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
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