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

[Drew Talley]

Thanks John - uninstalling and reinstalling (using a different mirror) fixed the problem!


I appreciate your help,

Drew


On Dec 22, 2013, at 8:03 AM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> 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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