[R-SIG-Mac] cannot get r commander to install

[David Winsemius]

On Dec 20, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Drew Talley wrote:

> I have been using R for a couple of years now, but recently updated to the newest version (3.0.2). 
> 
> When I tried to install the Rcmdr package (and dependencies), all went well until the end, when I got a series of errors (will paste below). 
> 
> I am running on a mac mini2.6 i7, 16GB RAM, and a Fusion drive, with OS X 10.9.1.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated!
> 
> 
> Drew
> 
> Hmisc/help/Hmisc.rdb: (Empty error message)
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
> rgl/textures/nightfire.png: (Empty error message)
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
> Error: file ‘/var/folders/vm/9zd10_1940s68c3pd_dd892w0000gs/T//RtmpF465Z8/downloaded_packages/rgl_0.93.963.tgz’ is not an OS X binary package

Could have been corrupted during download. You might think about first installing 'rgl' 'rms' and 'Hmisc' on your own, then maybe the script will just skip over those steps.

> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: '.find.package' is deprecated.
> Use 'find.package' instead.
> See help("Deprecated") 
> 2: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>  downloaded length 626272 != reported length 1514975
> 3: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>  downloaded length 110536 != reported length 4635832
> 4: 'tar' returned non-zero exit code 1 
> 5: 'tar' returned non-zero exit code 1 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Mac mailing list
> R-SIG-Mac at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac

David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA