Tim, Are you sure it is a binary package? Try a source install (or look in the uncompressed version of the package to see whether the gamlss/R/ directory is full of R code or has binary files with extensions .rdb and .rdx) You might also check permissions to make sure R has admin authority to install it system-wide (assuming that's where you want it), e.g. by clicking the lock at the top of the R interpreter window and authenticating. You definitely want to point at the .tar.gz file, not the uncompressed versions and I assume you have gunzip and tar (man gunzip and man tar should give you their help pages respectively in a terminal window if they are correctly installed). Otherwise I'm not sure what the problem is.
Walton > Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:23:56 +0000 > From: Tim Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing packages from .gz files > To: [email protected] > Cc: Mikis Stasinopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > I've been given an updated version of the gamlss package as a .tar.gz > file, but I'm struggling to install it with the package installer. I > specify Local Binary Package at the top, but when I Install and > select the file I get errors whichever of the three possible files I > point to - the .tar.gz file or .tar file or the gamlss folder. What > am I doing wrong? > The .gz file error is: > Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > cannot open compressed file 'gamlss_1.4-6.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION' > Thanks, > Tim Cole > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +44(0)20 7905 2666 Fax +44(0)20 7905 2381 > Paed Epidemiology & Biostats, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK ######################## .signature ######################## # Walton A. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # 139 Caulkinstown Road P. O. Box 208109, Yale Station # # Sharon, Connecticut 06069 New Haven, Connecticut 06520 # # (860) 364-5100 (203) 640-8122 # #################### 60 characters wide #################### _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
