[R] Build command in library(devtools)

[Hadley Wickham]

The first place to start is to make sure you have the latest version of
devtools. If that doesn't work, please file an issue on devtools' GitHub.

Hadley

On Wednesday, July 20, 2016, Steven Yen <syen04 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is what I found. I had to go back to as early as R 3.0.3 (March,
> 2014) along with Rtools30.exe that works with that version of R, in
> order for devtools to work right. With other/later version of R, I end
> up building a package with
> library(devtools); build("yenlib",binary=F)
> with no error message but the package does not run correctly; or with
> library(devtools); build("yenlib",binary=T)
> which deliver an error that says zip command failed (bevtools calls
> Rtools when binary=T).
>
> Updated versions are good, but what's the use if they do not work for a
> situation like this.
>
> Any help/insight would be appreciated.
>
> On 7/20/2016 10:08 AM, Steven Yen wrote:
> > 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
> <javascript:;>
> >> <mailto:syen04 at gmail.com <javascript:;>>>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. ​
>
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