[R] installing package from source with Linux

[Jannis]

It defenitely seems to be related to the zipping/tar program. "Untaring" 
the file with gzip/tar and then installing the uncompressed folder with 
R CMD INSTALL seems to work (it gives quite a bunch of warnings though....).

Jannis schrieb:
> Dear list,
>
>
> this may not be related to R but rather to my OS, but I do not 
> understand the issue of compiling R packages deeply enough to figure 
> out the exact cause of the problem.
>
> I am trying to install a R package from source as it is not yet 
> available under Cran (Rssa, downloaded here: 
> https://github.com/asl/rssa).
>
> Running
>
> sudo R CMD INSTALL asl-rssa-6f458e4.tar.gz
>
> from the console however gives me these error messages:
>
> Warnung in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) :
>   checksum error for entry 'pax_global_header'
> Fehler in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : unsupported entry type 
> ‘g’
>
> Does anybody have any hints on how to solve this? Do I have the wrong 
> packing program installed?
>
> I am trying this with Ubuntu 9.10 and the following R system:
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.12.0
>
> Thanks for any hints! Trying the same with another package downloaded 
> from Cran worked.
>
> Jannis
>
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