[R] Building own packages on Windows 2000!

[Witold Eryk Wolski]

Hi!
I encountered some things trying to build own packages under Windows 
2000 for which i found no answer in the documentation.
First.

1. I do not found the rcmd.exe in the bin directory of R_HOME.
 I installed R using the setup.exe
2. I updated the R intatllation with one of the zip files. (rw1041sp.zip)
now i had the rcmd.exe in the bin.
3. I do not found any hint in the docu that perl is needed.
4. I even do not found any hint that there are shared modules and that i 
can be necessary to add an
PERL5LIB path to the enviroment variables to use them and i still do not 
know if it is necessary.


Anyway, after few ours and some print statements i figured out that
system("tar chXf $exclude $filepath $pkgname"); in the build file called 
with
rcmd build
causes:

C:\prog\R\rw1041\myfiles\test>rcmd build --use-zip masspec
1
Its Windows MAN
** Options  --use-zip for --binary ignored
* checking for file `masspec/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing `masspec':
* cleaning src
its ok
* checking whether `INDEX' is up-to-date ... OK
* checking whether `data/00Index' is up-to-date ... OK
* removing junk files
* building `masspec_0.1.tar.gz'
something wrong!!!!!!!!!!
tar: Unknown option "-hXf"
Usage: tar -{crtux}[lpmovwzU[0-7[lmh]]] [-b blocks]
           [-f tarfile] [-V volpattern] [file [-C pathname] ...]
masspec_0.1.tar: No such file or directory

even i have the tools for windows installed.


I really want to build and install my own packages! I am out of ideas now!
Can anyone give me a hint?


(is there a mailing list for R-Ms Windows?)
Sinerely Eryk




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