Macintosh OS X 10.5.3
R version 2.7 (binary distribution)

#I tried this in R
install.packages(file.choose(), repos=NULL, type="source")
WARNING: omitting pointless dependence on 'R' without a version requirement
Warning message:
In install.packages(file.choose(), repos = NULL, type = "source") :
  installation of package '/Users/sefick/Desktop/sowas_0.94.tar.gz' had
non-zero exit status
* Installing *source* package 'sowas' ...
** libs
** arch - i386
** arch - ppc
** Removing '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/sowas'
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 161: make: command
not found
chmod: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/sowas/libs/i386/*:
No such file or directory
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 161: make: command
not found
chmod: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/sowas/libs/ppc/*:
No such file or directory
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'sowas'

#I tried this at the comand prompt sorry for my poor attention to detail

new-host-3:~ sefick$ R CMD INSTALL /Users/Desktop/sowas_0.94.tar.gz
WARNING: invalid package '/Users/Desktop/sowas_0.94.tar.gz'
* Installing to library '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library'
ERROR: no packages specified

#I will post this to the sig-mac group. I wanted to start here because it
has always been of great help.  Also, I didn't want to post my question in
two places until warranted.
thanks

Stephen


On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> That is not the filename at the site you gave.  Try using the actual file
> name.
>
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, stephen sefick wrote:
>
>  no it didn't- am I missing something
>> (Mac OS X 10.5.3, R 2.7)
>>
>> new-host-3:~ sefick$ R CMD INSTALL /Users/Desktop/sowas.tar.gz
>> WARNING: invalid package '/Users/Desktop/sowas.tar.gz'
>> * Installing to library
>> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library'
>> ERROR: no packages specified
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Richard Pearson <
>> richard.pearson@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>  From the (terminal window) command line try:
>>>
>>> R CMD INSTALL path.to.file/filename.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Does that do it?
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
>>> stephen sefick wrote:
>>>
>>>  install.packages(file.choose(), repos=NULL)
>>>> thought this would work, but it didn't
>>>> the package is the sowas package - this doesn't seem to be a CRAN
>>>> package,
>>>> and it can be found at :
>>>>
>>>> http://tocsy.agnld.uni-potsdam.de/wavelets/
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:25 AM, stephen sefick <ssefick@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  I can't figure this one out- I am the administrator,  The file that I
>>>>
>>>>> want
>>>>> to install is a .tar.gz which is located on my desktop.  How do I get
>>>>> it
>>>>> into my packages directory- through the GUI or through brute force?
>>>>> thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> stephen
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
>>>>> so
>>>>> little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
>>>>> make
>>>>> us
>>>>> feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying
>>>>> little
>>>>> problems of being mammals.
>>>>>
>>>>> -K. Mullis
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  --
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>>>
>>
>>
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>> little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make
>> us
>> feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little
>> problems of being mammals.
>>
>> -K. Mullis
>>
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-- 
Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so
little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us
feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little
problems of being mammals.

-K. Mullis

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