[R] Build command in library(devtools)

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 19/07/2016 10:06 PM, Steven Yen wrote:
> Thanks. I found the reason was Rtools does not run under the new version
> of R. I had to go back to as early as R 3.0.2 (September 2013) to make
> Rtools work.
> Any idea for a go-around? Thanks.

Which version of Rtools are you using?  Current Rtools is used to build 
current R (and all of its packages), so of course it works there (though 
we may not have tested on the latest version of Windows, and devtools is 
its own project, unrelated to Rtools).

Duncan Murdoch

>
> On 7/19/2016 4:38 PM, John McKown wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Steven Yen <syen04 at gmail.com
>> <mailto: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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