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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 1/9/2007 6:53 PM, Ken Nussear wrote:
> So I'm still not sure how to get these to install. They worked fine  
> when running 2.3.1, but when I updated R to 2.4.1 I can no longer  
> install these packages. Is there a fix?

I don't know.  For rgl, try this unreleased version.  This is a source 
package, not a binary one:

http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/temp/rgl_0.70.552.tar.gz

Duncan Murdoch


> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> On Jan 9, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 
>> 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 The version of rgl is also a couple of releases out of date, but  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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