[R-SIG-Mac] problems installing packages since upgrade to 2.4.1
    Ken Nussear 
    knussear at usgs.gov
       
    Tue Jan  9 19:20:57 CET 2007
    
    
  
I upgraded R to 2.4.1 yesterday and I'm having problems reinstalling  
some packages I had installed before and that I need for some modeling.
I've tried rgl and fBasics and I get similar error messages (see below).
Has anyone had luck with this?
Thanks
Ken
trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/ 
2.4/rgl_0.68.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1649254 bytes
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 1610Kb
Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
	argument is missing, with no default
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: A lone zero block at 1730
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/ 
2.4/fBasics_240.10068.1.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1412462 bytes
opened URL
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downloaded 1379Kb
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Read 10235 bytes from /tmp/RtmpyBlfBq/downloaded_packages/ 
fEcofin_240.10067.tgz
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
	argument is missing, with no default
In addition: Warning message:
installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status in:  
install.packages(c("rgl"), lib = "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ 
Resources/library/",
    
    
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