On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 08:01 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > For MacOS we have > > Binary packages, foo.tgz > Source packages, foo.tar.gz > > Neither are `zip files' (things created by zip, usually with extension .zip). > > It looks like you have not installed a source package before, and you > either do not have the development tools installed or they are not in your > path.
In this case probably the tools are missing, starting from 'make'. You should install the Development Tools / X-Code which come with the MacOS X installation cd/dvd at least from version 10.3.x. Otherwise you can get the development tools from http://developer.apple.com/. Moreover, in this case you need to get a Fortran compiler which does not come with MacOS. See R for Mac OS X FAQ, section "the Fortran compiler g77 gcc 3.3". > > That there is no binary version of a package available usually indicates a > problem with it on MacOS X, at least on the autobuilder's version of > MacOS. > Well, 'hier.part' is younger than the latest entry in Mac binary packages: there is nothing after Jan 19, 2005. The binary package builds beautifully in MacOS X. However, it seems to require package 'gtools' that I can't find in CRAN nor in BioConductor repositories. It seems that this didn't prevent passing tests to be included at CRAN or producing Windows binaries. Theresa, I can send you a Mac binary if you don't want to see the trouble of installing X-Code and g77. However, it failed with missing 'gtools' upon loading. cheers, jari oksanen > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Theresa Talley wrote: > > > Hi- > > I've been trying to install the hier.part package on > > my mac (OSX 10.3.7) and it is not working for some > > reason. I am downloading the package source called : > > hier.part_1.0.tar.gz. When I try to auto install from > > the cran site, I get this message: > > * Installing *source* package 'hier.part' ... > > ** libs > > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: > > line 1: make: command not found > > > > And when I try to install from the zip file on my > > computer, I get this message: > > What precisely did you do here? > > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > > tar: Child returned status 1 > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection > > In addition: Warning messages: > > 1: Installation of package hier.part had non-zero exit > > status in: install.packages(c("hier.part"), lib = > > "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library", > > 2: tar returned non-zero exit code: 512 in: untar(pkg, > > tmpDir) > > 3: cannot open file `hier.part_1.0.tar/DESCRIPTION' > > > > I've successfully installed other packages (e.g., > > vegan, cluster) so am not sure if there is something > > different about this one or if I’m just being dopey. > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the > posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html