[R-SIG-Mac] problems installing packages since upgrade to 2.4.1

[Simon Urbanek]

Duncan,

On Jan 9, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 1/9/2007 1:34 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> Ken,
>> On Jan 9, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Ken Nussear wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>> This looks like a problem with the mirror - did you try another  
>> CRAN  mirror? If in doubt, a good test is to try the master CRAN  
>> repository...
>
> The version of rgl is also a couple of releases out of date, but I  
> see that's what is currently on CRAN as the MacOSX binary.  The  
> problem is that the examples in rgl won't run without an X11 server.
>

current rgl doesn't pass make check, that's why it's not available in  
binary form:
http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-patched-macosx-ix86/ 
rgl-00check.html

Should I put it on fake install?

Cheers,
Simon

> Could you special case rgl, so it gets built?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>> 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
>>> ==================================================
>>> 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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