I just built R-devel from source on OS X (Tiger), using the subversion sources. Running ./tools/rsync-recommended didn't download rcompgen. I checked
http://cran.r-project/src/contrib/2.7.0/Recommended and indeed, this package is not there. If I try to install using install.packages I get > install.packages("rcompgen", type="source") --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done trying URL 'http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/rcompgen_0.1-17.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 29240 bytes (28 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 28 Kb * Installing *source* package 'rcompgen' ... Error: Invalid DESCRIPTION file Invalid Priority field. Packages with priorities 'base' or 'recommended' or 'defunct-base' must already be known to R. See the information on DESCRIPTION files in section 'Creating R packages' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual. Execution halted ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed ** Removing '/Users/jmacdon/R-devel/library/rcompgen' The downloaded packages are in /private/tmp/Rtmpb0Refs/downloaded_packages Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library' Warning message: In install.packages("rcompgen", type = "source") : installation of package 'rcompgen' had non-zero exit status I assume I am missing something obvious, but don't know what it is. Any pointers? Best, Jim > sessionInfo() R version 2.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-02-18 r44516) i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 locale: C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tcltk_2.7.0 tools_2.7.0 -- James W. MacDonald, MS Biostatistician UMCCC cDNA and Affymetrix Core University of Michigan 1500 E Medical Center Drive 7410 CCGC Ann Arbor MI 48109 734-647-5623 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel