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

[John Fox]

Dear David and Drew,

As far as I can tell from his postings, Drew's problem isn't specific to the
Rcmdr, and is different from problems with Mac OS X 10.9 that were
previously reported. There are installation notes for the Rcmdr package at
<http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html>,
including information specific to Mac OS X 10.9, but, to reiterate, these
have nothing to do with Drew's more general package-installation problem.

If Drew hasn't already done so, if I were he, I would uninstall R and then
reinstall it and desired packages from a different mirror, in case a
corrupted installation is the source of the problem. If the problem
persists, then it may have an origin on Drew's system outside of R, but I'm
insufficiently knowledgeable about Mac OS X to suggest a solution, which is
why I didn't respond to the original posting.

I hope that this helps,
 John

-------------------------------------------------------
John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada



> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of David Winsemius
> Sent: December-21-13 9:30 PM
> To: Drew Talley
> Cc: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] cannot get r commander to install
> 
> 
> On Dec 21, 2013, at 2:52 PM, Drew Talley wrote:
> 
> > I get the same errors when trying them individually. Any guesses if this
is at
> my end or elsewhere?
> >
> 
> Not really. You have not provided the code you used to do the install, nor
the
> name of the repository, not the versions for any of the packages   except
rgl).
> There was a thread on this forum earlier this month with John Fox as the
> original poster, and I got the idea that he figured out how to get Rcmdr
to
> install on Mavericks. At this point I'm not using Mavericks or Rcmdr, so
I'm
> going to bow out from the conversation.
> 
> (I can say that you really _ought_ to provide more specifics if you want
help.)
> --
> David.
> 
> >
> > On Dec 20, 2013, at 4:57 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> 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/downl
> oaded_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
> >>>
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> >> David Winsemius
> >> Alameda, CA, USA
> >>
> >
> 
> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
> 
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