Steve:
Everything is working fine now. I am able to access
r.research.att.com, and I got the binaries. Thanks so much for your
help.
Michael
On Nov 24, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote:
Hi Mike,
Just gonna CC the list back so that more people can chime in if
necessary:
Thanks. I have been trying to access the r.research.att.com site
all weekend, to no avail. When I run your command below, all I get
is jibberish in the terminal window. Are you experiencing the same
problems (i.e., is the jibberish normal?).
I'm not getting jibberish ... I'm also not having any problems
accessing the r.research.att.com site, so ... is that still
happening for you?
Anyway, an alternative you can try is to just d/l the binary
directly using your browser, and run the necessary commands (the tar
stuff) from the terminal.
That would look something like this.
1) Download the 2.8 binary using your browser by just dropping its
URL your address field:
http://r.research.att.com/R-2.8-branch-leopard-universal.tar.gz
I will assume that you're using Leopard + Safari, which is important
for two things
(i) It should d/l that binary into your ~/Downloads folder
(ii) it will automagically unzip the gz and leave you with the R-2.8-
*.tar file (I think, mine does this automatically)
2) You'll have to unpack the tar archive *into* the correct
location, which is the root of your system. That's why you need to
use `sudo` and that's what the "-C /" is doing at the end of the tar
command. So, now that you've d/led the archive w/ your browser, from
the terminal, type:
$ sudo tar xvf ~/Downloads/R-2.8-branch-leopard-universal.tar -C /
Note that it's not "tar xvfz" since it's unzipped ... if your binary
ends in *.tar.gz then you'd add the z
Anyway, that should do the trick, too, so let us know if that works.
-steve
On Nov 24, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote:
Hi Michael,
On Nov 24, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Michael Braun wrote:
I should note that the only reason I am compiling from source is
that, as far as I can tell, there are no 64-bit binaries
available for Leopard yet. If someone could point me to such
binaries, that might solve my problem.
Check out this page here:
http://r.research.att.com/
Primarily that blue box about 1/2-way down the page, that says:
Leopard builds can be installed as follows - paste in Terminal
(for R 2.8.x):
curl -s http://r.research.att.com/R-2.8-branch-leopard-universal.tar.gz
| sudo tar fvxz - -C /
That should do the trick and save you the hassle of compiling
yourself. ;-)
-steve
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Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos
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Michael Braun
Homer A. Burnell Career Development Professor, and
Assistant Professor of Management Science (Marketing Group)
MIT Sloan School of Management
One Amherst St., E40-169
Cambridge, MA 02142
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
617-253-3436
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Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos
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Michael Braun
Homer A. Burnell Career Development Professor, and
Assistant Professor of Management Science (Marketing Group)
MIT Sloan School of Management
One Amherst St., E40-169
Cambridge, MA 02142
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
617-253-3436
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