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

[Ben Bolker]

[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote:
> 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...
> 
> *****
>> 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
> ==================================================
> 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
> *****
> 
> 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) 
> 

  Since this is not my package (and I'm still not a Mac user),
I really have no idea ... I never heard back from Andrew, don't
know if he found a solution or if the problem went away by itself

  good luck
    Ben


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