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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Nov 9, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Kjell Konis wrote:

> 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?
>

Yes.

Cheers,
Simon


> 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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>>
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