[R-SIG-Mac] problem installing binary package with install.packages

[Simon Urbanek]

On Nov 7, 2008, at 11:28 , Kjell Konis wrote:

> There seems to be a bug when using install.packages to install a  
> local binary package. Installing the package using R CMD INSTALL in  
> a shell works fine.
>
> > file.exists("/u/smat/konis/Documents/Projects/RHugin_0.5-3_R_i386- 
> apple-darwin8.11.1.tar.gz")
> [1] TRUE
>
> > install.packages("/u/smat/konis/Documents/Projects/ 
> RHugin_0.5-3_R_i386-apple-darwin8.11.1.tar.gz", repos = NULL)
> Avis dans install.packages("/u/smat/konis/Documents/Projects/ 
> RHugin_0.5-3_R_i386-apple-darwin8.11.1.tar.gz",  :
>  l'argument 'lib' manque : '/u/smat/konis/Library/R/2.8/library' est  
> utilisé
> Erreur dans gzfile(file, "r") : impossible d'ouvrir la connexion
> De plus : Warning message:
> In gzfile(file, "r") :
>  impossible d'ouvrir le fichier compressé 'RHugin_0.5-3_R_i386-apple- 
> darwin8.11.1.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', cause probable : 'No such file or  
> directory'
>

Binary packages for Mac OS X are expected to have the extension .tgz  
so the above is not a valid binary package (see 6.3.2 in R-admin).

In addition binary packages for Mac OS X are expected to have the  
filename packageName_version.tgz, therefore files with platform  
designation are not supported, either. This is different from other  
unix systems. I have relaxed the requirements for  
install.packages(,repos=NULL) in R-devel but I would still strongly  
recommend to adhere to the above rules.

Cheers,
Simon


> > Sys.info()
>                                                                                       sysname
>                                                                                      "Darwin 
> "
>                                                                                       release
>                                                                                       "9.5.0 
> "
>                                                                                       version
> "Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep  3 11:29:43 PDT 2008;  
> root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386"
>                                                                                      nodename
>                                                                            "imamac05 
> .epfl.ch"
>                                                                                       machine
>                                                                                        "i386 
> "
>                                                                                         login
>                                                                                       "konis 
> "
>                                                                                          user
>                                                                                       "konis 
> "
>
> > version
>               _
> platform       i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
> arch           i386
> os             darwin8.11.1
> system         i386, darwin8.11.1
> status
> major          2
> minor          8.0
> year           2008
> month          10
> day            20
> svn rev        46754
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
>
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