[R] package rgl not installing on Mac OS X

[Brenda McCowan]

This is what I am getting:

> install.packages("rgl")
Installing package(s) into Œ/Users/brenda/Library/R/2.15/library¹
(as Œlib¹ is unspecified)
trying URL 
'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.15/rgl_0.92.880.t
gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 10757858 bytes (10.3 Mb)
opened URL
=
downloaded 411 Kb

rgl/fonts/FreeSerif.ttf: Truncated tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

The downloaded binary packages are in
    
/var/folders/YG/YGlE8Mx6HHKHOY6P5UdzNU+++TM/-Tmp-//RtmpambK9X/downloaded_pac
kages
Warning messages:
1: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
  downloaded length 421070 != reported length 10757858
2: 'tar' returned non-zero exit code 1


Thanks!

Brenda



On 5/14/12 3:01 PM, "Steve Lianoglou" <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Did you simply try:
> 
> install.packages("adehabitat")
> 
> or, if that doesn't work, maybe:
> 
> install.packages("adehabitat", type="source")
> 
> Or change your cran mirror?
> 
> -steve
> 
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Kristi Glover
> <kristi.glover at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi R- User,I tried to load package adehabitat for R version 2.15.0. But,  I
>> got error. even I download and save in local drive and tried to install from
>> the local file. but still i got the following errors
>>  install.packages("adehabitat", repos='C:/adehabitat_1.8.10.tgz')
>> 
>> 
>> package Œadehabitat¹ is not available (for R version 2.15.0)
>> 
>>> install.packages("adehabitat",
>>> repos='http://cran.skazkaforyou.com/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.15/adehabit
>>> at_1.8.10.tgz')
>> Warning: unable to access index for repository
>> http://cran.skazkaforyou.com/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.15/adehabitat_1.8.1
>> 0.tgz/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.15
>> Warning message:
>> package Œadehabitat¹ is not available (for R version 2.15.0)
>> I need to install it as I have been using a script that has used this package
>> too besides other packages.
>> Would any one help me how I can install the package on Mac OS X?
>> cheers,
>> KG
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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