From hpages at fhcrc.org  Thu Oct  7 21:21:16 2010
From: hpages at fhcrc.org (=?windows-1252?Q?Herv=E9_Pag=E8s?=)
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:21:16 -0700
Subject: [Rd] tar problem when using 'R CMD build' on Windows
In-Reply-To: <4CA4CCCC.6020303@fhcrc.org>
References: <4CA4CCCC.6020303@fhcrc.org>
Message-ID: <4CAE1DAC.6050905@fhcrc.org>

Hi,

On 09/30/2010 10:45 AM, Herv? Pag?s wrote:
[...]
> If that is not desirable, could the tools:::.build_packages() function
> not put quotes around the value of the TAR environment variable (the
> code does shQuote(TAR)), at least on Windows, so I can set this
> variable to
>
> tar --no-same-owner
>

Current R-beta doesn't put quotes around TAR anymore. So now
I can do SET TAR=tar --no-same-owner on Windows and that fixes
my problem. Thanks!

>
> Note that the use of quotes around TAR is inconsistent across
> utils::untar(), utils::tar() and tools:::.build_packages() (only
> the first doesn't put them) but that's another story.

And now things seem to be consistent (none of those functions puts
quotes around TAR anymore). This is good. Thanks again!

H.

>
> Thanks!
> H.
>
>


-- 
Herv? Pag?s

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