Hi Kasper
Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
Ok, this is clearly wrong. As you can see in your output, this PATH
does not contain /usr/bin where tar is. In my case I get
R> Sys.getenv("PATH")
PATH
"/Users/khansen/Bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin"
This looks like a failed attempt at setting the PATH somewhere. What
you see is where similar to the syntax you use in your .bashrc file
but with stuff jumbled a bit. So my wild guess is that you have tried
setting your PATH somewhere else and that this gets picked up. Do you
have a .profile file. In fact I would do something like
# cd
# grep PATH * .*
(star space dot star), to see if you are playing with the PATH
somewhere else.
Here the output of this command...
GMXUX-Ricardo-Rodriguez:~ rrodriguez$ sudo grep PATH * .*
Password:
.Rhistory:Sys.getenv("PATH")
.bash_history:echo $PATH
.bash_history:echo $PATH
.bash_history:echo $PATH
.bash_history:echo $PATH
.bash_history:echo $PATH
.bash_history:echo $PATH
.bash_history:echo $PATH
.bash_history:echoc$PATH
.bash_history:$echo PATH
.bash_history:echo $PATH
.bash_history:echo $PATH
.bash_history:echo $PATH
.bash_profile.bak:export PATH=$PATH:$M2
.viminfo: export PATH=$PATH:$M2
.viminfo: export PATH=$PATH:$M2
GMXUX-Ricardo-Rodriguez:~ rrodriguez$
In fact I realized that I was using the wrong order of variables! The
right one is $M2:$PATH. But this has nothing to do with the issue we are
dealing with now.
Could this .bash_profile.bak be the problem? I have left this file there
while trying to set some variables I need to work with Maven in
/etc/.bashrc.
Are you on a multi-user system? (Could your sys admin have played with
site-settings?)
I am using a brand new MacBook Pro laptop. I am the only user and
administrator.
My comment about BASH and SH was just based on your prompt. It is
normal that R uses SH for its purposes, that is pretty standard.
I think years ago Mac OS X used tcsh as default shell. But today bash is
the default one. The "funny" thing is that sudo su apparently switch to
sh. I can not say much on this. Just that your comment called my
attention on this.
The reason why people are talking about DevTools is that this is
needed in order to compile from source. And a lot of tools are found
in the DevTools. And most of us cannot remember if tar came from
DevTools or with a standard Mac OS X. But I am pretty sure it is part
of standard OS X.
I got it! tar is part of the standard OS X distribution as ./usr/bin/tar
Thanks for your help!
Ricardo
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Ricardo RodrÃguez
Your XEN ICT Team
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