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

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team]

Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> Ok, I guess I was being a bit unhelpful. You are trying to install a 
> binary from Bioconductor. This should work out of the box. What 
> version of R are you using. If you are doing 64bit computing you need 
> to install from source. Of course, that does not change that tar seems 
> to be missing which is a mystery. But my guess is that you have done 
> something non-standard since for most people it works out of the box. 

 > version
               _                          
platform       i386-apple-darwin8.11.1    
arch           i386                       
os             darwin8.11.1               
system         i386, darwin8.11.1         
status                                    
major          2                          
minor          7.2                        
year           2008                       
month          08                         
day            25                         
svn rev        46428                      
language       R                          
version.string R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)
 >

I am working in a MacBook Pro, Mac OS X 10.5.5 Build 9F33

Model Name:    MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier:    MacBookPro4,1
  Processor Name:    Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:    2.5 GHz
  Number Of Processors:    1
  Total Number Of Cores:    2
  L2 Cache:    6 MB
  Memory:    4 GB
  Bus Speed:    800 MHz
  Boot ROM Version:    MBP41.00C1.B03
  SMC Version:    1.27f1
  Serial Number:    W88251TWYJY
  Sudden Motion Sensor:
  State:    Enabled

Hope this gives you some clue.

-- 
Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team