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mkropkowski
mkropkowski

Reputation: 107

Create zip package on mac in RStudio

Is there a way to create r source packages in zip format on mac OS in RStudio? If so how to do that?

When I am trying to build a source package devtools::build() I am left with tar.gz file. Why not zip? How to force it to create zip?

Anything?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 386

Answers (1)

AkselA
AkselA

Reputation: 8836

There is no support for zip (de-)compression in the tar utility, which build() uses to bundle the package, and is used when installing a package. Depending on what version you have it can compress with gzip, bzip2 and compress algorithms on old versions, and lzma, lzop, xz and lzip on newer GNU versions.

Hence making a tar.zip archive would make little sense, as the standard ways of unpacking and installing it would not work.

Upvotes: 2

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