[R] installing package hier.part on Mac OSX

[Prof Brian Ripley]

For MacOS we have

Binary packages, foo.tgz
Source packages, foo.tar.gz

Neither are `zip files' (things created by zip, usually with extension .zip).

It looks like you have not installed a source package before, and you 
either do not have the development tools installed or they are not in your 
path.

That there is no binary version of a package available usually indicates a 
problem with it on MacOS X, at least on the autobuilder's version of 
MacOS.

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Theresa Talley wrote:

> Hi-
> I've been trying to install the hier.part package on
> my mac (OSX 10.3.7) and it is not working for some
> reason. I am downloading the package source called :
> hier.part_1.0.tar.gz.  When I try to auto install from
> the cran site, I get this message:
> * Installing *source* package 'hier.part' ...
> ** libs
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB:
> line 1: make: command not found
>
> And when I try to install from the zip file on my
> computer, I get this message:

What precisely did you do here?

> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: Installation of package hier.part had non-zero exit
> status in: install.packages(c("hier.part"), lib =
> "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library",
> 2: tar returned non-zero exit code: 512 in: untar(pkg,
> tmpDir)
> 3: cannot open file `hier.part_1.0.tar/DESCRIPTION'
>
> I've successfully installed other packages (e.g.,
> vegan, cluster) so am not sure if there is something
> different about this one or if I’m just being dopey.


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