[R] Cannot change R package name in Windows and cannot install an R package in Mac OS Yosemite

[Michael Peng]

I see. Thanks a lot.

Gang

On Tuesday, November 11, 2014, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

>
>
> On 11.11.2014 23:05, Michael Peng wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am now writing an R package LFSpro. I build it for both Mac OS and
>> Windows.
>>
>> For Windows, the binary package name is LFSpro_1.0.3.zip. It can be
>> installed into R successfully. But when I changed the name to
>> LFSpro_1.0.3.Windows.zip, an error occurred:
>>
>> Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname,"DESCRIPTION"), c("Package",
>> "TYPE")):cannot open the connection
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname,"DESCRIPTION") c("Package", "TYPE")) cannot
>> open compressed file 'LFSpro_1.0.3.Windows/DESCRIPTION', probable reason
>> 'No such file or directory'
>>
>> Why we cannot change the package name in windows?
>>
>
> Since the filename is an esential part of the package used by the tools.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>  The R package is build on http://win-builder.r-project.org/. There is no
>> error when built it on http://win-builder.r-project.org/. We installed it
>> in Windows 7 and 8.1. The R version is 3.1.2.
>>
>> For Mac OS, someone tested it on Yosemite, an error occurred:
>>
>> R[1588:958444] plugin com.getdropbox.dropbox.garcon interrupted
>>
>> I googled the error message, it seems that there is an incompatibility
>> between R and Yosemite. But when I tested it by myself on Yosemite, there
>> is no such an error. The user is in Brazil, and he is not very familiar
>> with R. I don't know why this error occurs.
>>
>> Is anyone has any idea why there is this error message. The R package is
>> build in R 3.1.1 and Mac OS X 10.6.8.
>>
>> If anyone want to test the R package, you can download it from
>> http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/main/LFSpro
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your help.
>>
>> Best,
>> Gang
>>
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