Oddly, this doesn't happen here, even though I also tar xj instead of xJ ot the .xz file.
Any chance you two could be picking up a different tar? I am seeing PeterDaardsiMac:ISwR pd$ which tar /usr/bin/tar PeterDaardsiMac:ISwR pd$ tar --version bsdtar 3.5.3 - libarchive 3.5.3 zlib/1.2.12 liblzma/5.4.3 bz2lib/1.0.8 and "man tar" claims that j and J options are "c mode only" so presumably ignored and tar gets the compression type from the input itself. -pd > On 22 Mar 2025, at 15.53, Sparapani, Rodney via R-SIG-Mac > <r-sig-mac@r-project.org> wrote: > > Hi Naresh: > > I’m seeing the same error message. And it makes sense > because the boost tar-ball is compressed with xz and > not bzip2. On line 87 of install.R, we have the following… > if (system(paste("curl", "-sSL", shQuote(u), "|", "tar fxj - -C /")) < 0) > Little j means bzip2 while big J is xz. So try substituting… > if (system(paste("curl", "-sSL", shQuote(u), "|", "tar fxJ - -C /")) < 0) > > -- > Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics > President, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association > Division of Biostatistics, Data Science Institute > Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus > > > From: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Naresh > Gurbuxani <naresh_gurbux...@hotmail.com> > Date: Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM > To: r-sig-mac@r-project.org <r-sig-mac@r-project.org> > Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] install.libs error > Downloading + installing > https://mac.R-project.org/bin/darwin20/x86_64/boost-1.86.0-darwin.20-x86_64.tar.xz > > $<https://mac.R-project.org/bin/darwin20/x86_64/boost-1.86.0-darwin.20-x86_64.tar.xz%20$> > ... > bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. > tar: Child died with signal 13 > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination, passed 8192 returned 0 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business SchoolSolbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac