Hi Fellow R Users,
I recently upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 (Snow Leopard) and had some issues
downloading and running R 2.10.1. I fixed the tcl/tk problem I was
originally having but it was replaced with another. I run R out of the shell
(terminal) and when I ask it to download.packages() it gives me the
following message:

*Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done*
*Error in file.info(x) : argument "destdir" is missing, with no default*
*
*
I searched around on the help archives and various online message boards and
the most I could discern was that the directory where the library is located
isn't being recognized by R (it should recognize it by default). I tried
setting the "destdir" argument manually to no avail. I am able to
successfully download and install packages with no problem if I run the
actual R program out of the Applications folder, however I prefer to use the
shell. I did find one mention of a recognized issue with OS X 10.5 and R
2.10.1 conflicting when trying to download packages, which results in the
library pathway being broken. The only problem is the fix for this problem
given in the R manual doesn't work. Has anyone had a similar problem or have
any ideas as to how to solve this?

Greatest appreciation,
Jessica

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Jessica L Joganic
Graduate Student
Department of Anthropology
Campus Box 1114
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
email: jljogani@artsci.wustl.edu

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