[R] Rcmd build -binary -- problem

[Stephen Eick]

Nope.  I tried -- too.  I tried many other variations too.  Any suggestions?

R>Rcmd build --binary thinc
Rcmd build --binary thinc
Warning: unknown option '--binary'
* checking for file 'thinc/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'thinc':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* cleaning src
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
Removed empty directory 'thinc/data'
* building 'thinc_1.0.tar.gz'

I don't understand your comment about "you explicitly asked not to
send HTML, as you always were..."  Is this in regards to using gmail??

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 22/03/2012 17:33, Stephen Eick wrote:
>>
>> Hi.  I need a bit of help.  I'm running Windows 7 and "out of the box"
>> versions of Rtools and R (version 2.14.2) and am trying to compile a
>> package that worked before. When I run the command:
>>
>>> Rcmd build -binary mypackage
>>> Warning: unknown option '-binary'
>>
>>
>> i get a warning and it creates the tar.gz file but not the zip file like
>> before.  Something has changed with the more recent versions of R.  Any
>> suggestions on how to make the .zip file?
>
>
> Nothing has changed.  It is --binary (two hyphens) as it always was (and you explicitly asked not to send HTML, as you always were).
>
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