[R-SIG-Mac] installing Lindsey's package on a mac

[David Orlovich]

Anne, I'm not sure about your specific package, but I'm wondering if  
you have the right privileges to install packages.  Does it work if you  
run R from the command line with sudo R - and then do the installation?
HTH, David.

On 29/07/2004, at 6:42 AM, Anne G wrote:

> Hi
>
> I went to
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/other-software.htmlhttp://cran.us.r- 
> project.org/other-software.html
> and then to
> http://popgen0146uns50.unimaas.nl/~jlindsey/rcode.html
> to download rmutil.tgz and gnlm.tgz.
>
> I have a mac OSX, 10.3.4, R 1.9.0
> I decompress the two files, take out the makefile from the
> scr directory.
> then in the R menu, I choose
> packages, install from local files, and then I select the
> one of the folder on the desktop.
> I get the error message
> install.from.file(pkg="/Users/anne/Desktop/rmutil")
> 	npackage installation failed
>
> Anyone has had that problem before and know how to fix it?
>
> thanks
>
> Anne
>
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