[R-SIG-Mac] Installing packages from .gz files

[Byron Ellis]

Have you installed the Developer's Tools? Is make otherwise available
from Terminal?

On 12/12/06, Tim Cole <tim.cole at ich.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Thanks to Paul Roebuck and Walton A. Green, I now realise it is a
> Source Package not a Binary Package, and I install the .tar.gz file,
> but I still get this error when I Install:
>
> WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
> * Installing *source* package 'gamlss' ...
> ** libs
> ** arch - ppc
> ** Removing
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.4/Resources/library/gamlss'
> ** Restoring previous
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.4/Resources/library/gamlss'
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 1: make:
> command not found
> chmod:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.4/Resources/library/gamlss/libs/ppc/*:
> No such file or directory
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'gamlss'
>
> This happens with the package installer or from the command line, and
> authenticating makes no difference. Why is the make command not found?
>
> Tim
>
> At 16:23 +0000 11/12/06, Tim Cole wrote:
> >I've been given an updated version of the gamlss package as a
> >.tar.gz file, but I'm struggling to install it with the package
> >installer. I specify Local Binary Package at the top, but when I
> >Install and select the file I get errors whichever of the three
> >possible files I point to - the .tar.gz file or .tar file or the
> >gamlss folder. What am I doing wrong?
> >
> >The .gz file error is:
> >Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> >In addition: Warning message:
> >cannot open compressed file 'gamlss_1.4-6.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION'
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Tim Cole
>
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Byron Ellis (byron.ellis at gmail.com)
"Oook" -- The Librarian