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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 1/9/2007 2:02 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> 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 The version of rgl is also a couple of releases out of date, but I  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?

Yes, please, if that's easier than running it on a machine where an X 
server is available.  (If you were running it on a machine with an X 
server, then that error is more serious.)

Duncan

> 
> 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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