[R-SIG-Mac] install.libs error

[Sparapani, Rodney]

Hi Naresh:

I’m seeing the same error message.  And it makes sense
because the boost tar-ball is compressed with xz and
not bzip2.  On line 87 of install.R, we have the following…
if (system(paste("curl", "-sSL", shQuote(u), "|", "tar fxj - -C /")) < 0)
Little j means bzip2 while big J is xz.  So try substituting…
if (system(paste("curl", "-sSL", shQuote(u), "|", "tar fxJ - -C /")) < 0)

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Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics
President, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Division of Biostatistics, Data Science Institute
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus


From: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Naresh Gurbuxani <naresh_gurbuxani using hotmail.com>
Date: Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
To: r-sig-mac using r-project.org <r-sig-mac using r-project.org>
Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] install.libs error
Downloading + installing  https://mac.R-project.org/bin/darwin20/x86_64/boost-1.86.0-darwin.20-x86_64.tar.xz $<https://mac.R-project.org/bin/darwin20/x86_64/boost-1.86.0-darwin.20-x86_64.tar.xz%20$>  ...
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child died with signal 13
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination, passed 8192 returned 0

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