[R-SIG-Mac] Problems installing

[Larry Ochoa]

I'm a complete newbie using OS X 10.4.9 and R 2.4.1 GUI 1.18 (4038).
I'm trying to use R's package installer to install some packages.
Towards that end, I tried only to get a list of the packages.  I get
this error:

Error in gzfile(file, mode) : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning message:
cannot open compressed file
'/tmp/RtmprmwxFX/libloc_0.000000Library0.000000Frameworks-1.963547R.framework-1.971234Versions7628678356447287675073387783678049632766378183380922212368921077103659686886048888188113825997068360428128205927790567562884317757634859524712415419979785554232458741289966225640940127094987742930487045447453561438204546376531968.0000002.4948849543871441494075712371861686266041367797172074999771977874662533678989599248211701567545690492602936709249826296336729884234870865336278988016091240867517706551689216.000000Resources2609858912174673710728366441481191203646022764066357520115874632913464717735585936796742064384110241617374221814323527178009592741691025699579902704816191711174277033607291522252800.000000libraryVersion,Priority,Bundle,Contains,Depends,Imports,Suggests,Built.rds'
> traceback()
4: gzfile(file, mode)
3: .saveRDS(ret0, dest, compress = TRUE)
2: installed.packages()
1: browse.pkgs(type = "mac.binary")

gzfile() works, so I'm not sure what's going on:

> gzfile("fEcofin_240.10067.tgz","rb")
            description                   class
"fEcofin_240.10067.tgz"                "gzfile"
                   mode                    text
                  "rb6"                "binary"
                 opened                can read
               "opened"                   "yes"
              can write
                   "no"

Any help?  Any ideas?  If there's any other information I can add, please ask.

--Larry