[R] Build command in library(devtools)

John McKown john.archie.mckown at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 22:38:31 CEST 2016


On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Steven Yen <syen04 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently updated my R and RStudio to the latest version and now the
> binary option in the "build" command in devtools stops working.
>
> I went around and used the binary=F option which worked by I get the
> .tar.gz file instead of the .zip file which I prefer.
>
> Does anyone understand the following error message:
>
> status 127
> running 'zip' failed
>

​I'm not totally sure, but I think that means that R cannot find the "zip"
program in order to run it. ​



>
> ===
> setwd("A:/R/yenlib/"); library(devtools)
> #build("yenlib",binary=T) # Thisfailed with an error message
> build("yenlib",binary=F) # This works
>
>  > build("yenlib",binary=T)
> "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.1/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file  \
>    --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL \
>    "A:\R\yenlib\yenlib" --build
>
> * installing to library
> 'C:/Users/syen01/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmp8A7KEw/temp_libpath4074149a528e'
> * installing *source* package 'yenlib' ...
> ** R
> ** data
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> *** arch - i386
> *** arch - x64
> * MD5 sums
> Warning: running command '"zip" -r9Xq "A:/R/yenlib/yenlib_16.3.zip"
> yenlib' had status 127
> running 'zip' failed
> * DONE (yenlib)
> [1] "A:/R/yenlib/yenlib_16.3.zip"
>  >
>
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