Guillaume,

The problem is that R can't find /usr/bin/gnutar. One way of fixing this is to 
install gnutar or to create a symbolic link to tar, which is available on 
Mavericks.

Rob J. Goedman
[email protected]




On Nov 28, 2013, at 7:11 AM, Guillaume Blanchet <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi ! 
> 
> I have recently updated my OS to Maverick and from this moment, I have been 
> unable to compile any packages (with or without C code in them). However, I 
> can install source package on my machine without any problem. In other words, 
> the command line 
> 
> R CMD INSTALL pkg
> 
> works perfectly fine, where as the command line 
> 
> R CMD INSTALL --build pkg
> 
> sends me the following insults after trying to compile any package (here for 
> the package spacemakeR):
> 
> * installing to library 
> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/library’
> * installing *source* package ‘spacemakeR’ ...
> ** R
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices
> ** installing vignettes
>   ‘tutorial.Rnw’ using ‘UTF-8’ 
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> sh: /usr/bin/gnutar: No such file or directory
> gzip: can't stat: 
> /Users/guslevesque/Documents/Recherche/Subversion/sedar/pkg/spacemakeR_0.0-5_R_x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0.tar
>  
> (/Users/guslevesque/Documents/Recherche/Subversion/sedar/pkg/spacemakeR_0.0-5_R_x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0.tar):
>  No such file or directory
> Avis dans file.rename(file.path(startdir, filename), file.path(startdir,  :
>  impossible de renommer le fichier 
> '/Users/guslevesque/Documents/Recherche/Subversion/sedar/pkg/spacemakeR_0.0-5_R_x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0.tar.gz'
>  en 
> '/Users/guslevesque/Documents/Recherche/Subversion/sedar/pkg/spacemakeR_0.0-5.tgz',
>  à cause de 'No such file or directory'
> packaged installation of ‘spacemakeR’ as ‘spacemakeR_0.0-5.tgz’
> * DONE (spacemakeR)
> 
> 
> Note that I have carefully followed advices posted on this list and I have 
> install XQuartz, XCode 5.0.2 and XCode command line tools and made following 
> modifications to the ~/.R/Makevars file:
> 
> CC=clang
> CXX=clang++
> CFLAGS="-mtune=native -g -O2 -Wall -pedantic -Wconversion"
> CXXFLAGS="-mtune=native -g -O2 -Wall -pedantic -Wconversion"
> 
> Any ideas what is causing this problem ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for all the help ! 
> 
> Guillaume Blanchet
> 
> P.S.: I almost forgot, I am working with R 3.0.2
> 
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