On 09 Mar 2014, at 00:21 , Bryan Renne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there. I am having compilation problems with R 3.0.2 (and R 3.0.3) on > OS X 10.9.2.
On homebrew.... (Would have been useful to say up front.) > Everything seems to work up to the installation of > recommended R packages. At that point, the make fails. In particular, > after running "R CMD INSTALL MASS.tgz" (directly or the essentially > equivalent but multi-optioned version that is run via the Makefile), I end > up with the following fatal error: > > Warning in read.dcf(fd <- file.path(pkg, "DESCRIPTION")) : >> cannot open compressed file >> './RtmpeHPfcG/R.INSTALLb9055b3c3f45/MASS/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No >> such file or directory' >> Error: error reading file >> './RtmpeHPfcG/R.INSTALLb9055b3c3f45/MASS/DESCRIPTION' > > > For more detailed output of "configure" and "make" please see the output > from these failed homebrew installations (which are essentially identical > with what I get when I try to install from CRAN-provided source): > > for R 3.0.2: https://gist.github.com/bprenne/8626679 > > for R 3.0.3: https://gist.github.com/bprenne/9405569 > > Someone on the homebrew team recommended I contact people via an R list ( > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science/issues/640), so here I am. > > I also tried setting R_INSTALL_TAR to the system tar or to a > homebrew-installed gnutar. Neither helped. > > Any suggestions on how I might proceed? Hmm, difficult to tell. If push comes to shove, you could try getting more info out of the INSTALL process (inject a debug(tools:::.install_packages), I suppose, but it is a bit beyond me currently). But first, I'd check what Makeconf sets the TAR variable to. -pd > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: [email protected] Priv: [email protected] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
