[R-SIG-Mac] problem installing binary package with install.packages
Simon Urbanek
simon.urbanek at r-project.org
Fri Nov 7 22:00:24 CET 2008
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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