Clearly tar is not in the PATH. Your PATH variable can be different
from application to application and in this case however you have
started R (GUI?), tar is not being picked up. And which tar are you
using? Xcode, FInk, Macports.
Kasper
On Oct 3, 2008, at 14:14 , Ben Bolker wrote:
[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote:
Hi Ben, Andrew,
I am facing the same problem (R 2.7.2 running on Mac OS X 10.5.5
Build
9F33; MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.5 GHz); tar is in the path...
GMXUX-Ricardo-Rodriguez:~ rrodriguez$ tar
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
Here an error. This installation usually does work...
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install.packages("reshape")
also installing the dependency 'plyr'
trying URL
'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/plyr_0.1.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 544654 bytes (531 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 531 Kb
trying URL
'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/reshape_0.8.1.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 94353 bytes (92 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 92 Kb
/bin/sh: tar: command not found
Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
argument is missing, with no default
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Any idea, please? Thanks!
Greetings,
Ricardo
Ben Bolker wrote:
This is my package, but I don't think there's anything wrong with
the package (the check summary on CRAN says it's OK). Does this
happen
with all packages? Have you tried a different mirror? (123 K seems
like a reasonable size for this package).
On the other hand, the specific error message says the problem
is that R can't find the "tar" command -- is it in your path?
Ben Bolker (not a Mac person)
Since this is not my package (and I'm still not a Mac user),
I really have no idea ... I never heard back from Andrew, don't
know if he found a solution or if the problem went away by itself
good luck
Ben
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