[R] creating a distinct zip file

Peter Langfelder peter.langfelder at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 19:49:32 CET 2015


On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 21/02/15 15:02, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
>>
>> R CMD INSTALL --build packagename
>
>
> That will create a *.tar.gz file, not a *.zip file.  The latter being
> what Erin wanted, if I understand correctly.


It depends on her system (I don't see it specified anywhere). On
Windows, R CMD INSTALL --build packagename produces a compiled .zip
file. On Mac it produces a .tgz. Haven't tried it on Linux.

Peter



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