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

[Kjell Konis]

Just to be clear, will using 'R CMD build --binary packageName' then  
renaming the resulting file 'packageName_version.tgz' yield a valid  
binary package for Mac OS X?

Thanks,
Kjell

On Nov 7, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> 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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>