Hi Don, type="source" solved the problem.
Thanks very much for your help, best, Snaebjorn On Sep 21, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Don MacQueen wrote: > Are you trying to install a package from source? > Try adding type='source' when you call install.packages(). > The help page for install.packages() indicates the need for this on > a Mac. > > You might also check and see if ~/libs exists, and you have write > privileges, but take care of the source vs. binary issue first. > Notice the 'bin' in the URL path it mentions. > > -Don > > At 12:16 PM -0400 9/21/06, Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I'm working on MAC OS X 10.4.7 using R version 2.3.1 (June >> 2006) and platform powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0. Since I installed >> the new version of R I cannot install packages any more (but it >> worked fine before) and get the following message every time. I >> can, however, install packages from the command line if I get them >> as precompiled binaries. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > install.packages("foreign", lib="~/libs/Rlibs") >> trying URL 'http://www.biometrics.mtu.edu/CRAN/bin/macosx/powerpc/ >> contrib/2.3/foreign_0.8-15.tgz' >> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 268096 bytes >> opened URL >> ================================================== >> downloaded 261Kb >> >> tar: ~/libs/Rlibs/file77a4044d: Cannot chdir: No such file or >> directory >> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now >> >> gzip: stdout: Broken pipe >> Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) : >> argument is missing, with no default >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> The command did create the directory (i.e. ~/libs/Rlibs/ >> file77a4044d) on my system and has open priviledges (i.e. drwxr-xr- >> x) but is empty. I've tried 'sudo R' but that does not help and >> cannot find anything helpful on this in the R-help archives or FAQ. >> >> Thanks in advance for your help, >> I would really appreciate any help in solving this, >> best regards, >> Snaebjorn >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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 >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > -- > -------------------------------------- > Don MacQueen > Environmental Protection Department > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > Livermore, CA, USA > -------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.