Thanks John - uninstalling and reinstalling (using a different mirror) fixed the problem!
I appreciate your help, Drew On Dec 22, 2013, at 8:03 AM, John Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear David and Drew, > > As far as I can tell from his postings, Drew's problem isn't specific to the > Rcmdr, and is different from problems with Mac OS X 10.9 that were > previously reported. There are installation notes for the Rcmdr package at > <http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html>, > including information specific to Mac OS X 10.9, but, to reiterate, these > have nothing to do with Drew's more general package-installation problem. > > If Drew hasn't already done so, if I were he, I would uninstall R and then > reinstall it and desired packages from a different mirror, in case a > corrupted installation is the source of the problem. If the problem > persists, then it may have an origin on Drew's system outside of R, but I'm > insufficiently knowledgeable about Mac OS X to suggest a solution, which is > why I didn't respond to the original posting. > > I hope that this helps, > John > > ------------------------------------------------------- > John Fox, Professor > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces@r- >> project.org] On Behalf Of David Winsemius >> Sent: December-21-13 9:30 PM >> To: Drew Talley >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] cannot get r commander to install >> >> >> On Dec 21, 2013, at 2:52 PM, Drew Talley wrote: >> >>> I get the same errors when trying them individually. Any guesses if this > is at >> my end or elsewhere? >>> >> >> Not really. You have not provided the code you used to do the install, nor > the >> name of the repository, not the versions for any of the packages except > rgl). >> There was a thread on this forum earlier this month with John Fox as the >> original poster, and I got the idea that he figured out how to get Rcmdr > to >> install on Mavericks. At this point I'm not using Mavericks or Rcmdr, so > I'm >> going to bow out from the conversation. >> >> (I can say that you really _ought_ to provide more specifics if you want > help.) >> -- >> David. >> >>> >>> On Dec 20, 2013, at 4:57 PM, David Winsemius <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Dec 20, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Drew Talley wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have been using R for a couple of years now, but recently updated to >> the newest version (3.0.2). >>>>> >>>>> When I tried to install the Rcmdr package (and dependencies), all went >> well until the end, when I got a series of errors (will paste below). >>>>> >>>>> I am running on a mac mini2.6 i7, 16GB RAM, and a Fusion drive, with > OS >> X 10.9.1. >>>>> >>>>> Any help would be appreciated! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Drew >>>>> >>>>> Hmisc/help/Hmisc.rdb: (Empty error message) >>>>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. >>>>> rgl/textures/nightfire.png: (Empty error message) >>>>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. >>>>> Error: file >> '/var/folders/vm/9zd10_1940s68c3pd_dd892w0000gs/T//RtmpF465Z8/downl >> oaded_packages/rgl_0.93.963.tgz' is not an OS X binary package >>>> >>>> Could have been corrupted during download. You might think about first >> installing 'rgl' 'rms' and 'Hmisc' on your own, then maybe the script will > just >> skip over those steps. >>>> >>>>> In addition: Warning messages: >>>>> 1: '.find.package' is deprecated. >>>>> Use 'find.package' instead. >>>>> See help("Deprecated") >>>>> 2: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : >>>>> downloaded length 626272 != reported length 1514975 >>>>> 3: In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : >>>>> downloaded length 110536 != reported length 4635832 >>>>> 4: 'tar' returned non-zero exit code 1 >>>>> 5: 'tar' returned non-zero exit code 1 >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >>>> >>>> David Winsemius >>>> Alameda, CA, USA >>>> >>> >> >> David Winsemius >> Alameda, CA, USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
