[R-SIG-Mac] tar not found

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team]

Thanks Carl,

Carl Witthoft wrote:
> I'd grab the source to install.packages and see if for some reason 
> there's a hard-coded path to tar.
> Not that I'm a highly skilled coder, but I sure would have hoped that 
> the author of install.packages would at least have made sure that,if 
> it's calling system functions (like /bin/sh), it would make sure to 
> pick up the user environment -- not just grab the R console's idea of 
> the environment.
>
>
> Here an error. This installation usually does work... 
Please, follow the thread "/bin/sh: tar: command not found". It seems
that there is some kind of issue with the PATH I've set in my
environment and how R interprets it.

Greetings,

Ricardo

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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team