[R-SIG-Mac] /bin/sh: tar: command not found

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team]

Hi Ben, Andrew,

I am facing the same problem (R 2.7.2 running on Mac OS X 10.5.5 Build 
9F33; MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.5 GHz); tar is in the path...

GMXUX-Ricardo-Rodriguez:~ rrodriguez$ tar
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.

Here an error. This installation usually does work...

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 > install.packages("reshape")
also installing the dependency 'plyr'

trying URL 
'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/plyr_0.1.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 544654 bytes (531 Kb)
opened URL
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downloaded 531 Kb

trying URL 
'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/reshape_0.8.1.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 94353 bytes (92 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 92 Kb

/bin/sh: tar: command not found
Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
  argument is missing, with no default
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Any idea, please? Thanks!

Greetings,

Ricardo


Ben Bolker wrote:
>   This is my package, but I don't think there's anything wrong with
> the package (the check summary on CRAN says it's OK).  Does this happen
> with all packages?  Have you tried a different mirror? (123 K seems
> like a reasonable size for this package).
>
>   On the other hand, the specific error message says the problem
> is that R can't find the "tar" command -- is it in your path?
>
>   Ben Bolker (not a Mac person) 

-- 
Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team