On Mar 3, 2009, at 17:52 , Andrew J. Rominger wrote:
Hello all,
My appologies for any possible cross-posting--I originally posted a
version of this to R-Help, but was refered to r-sig-mac because
apparently my problem is mac-specific.
It is specific to your system - experience (see archives) shows that
either you somehow changed the default PATH and it doesn't include /
usr/bin anymore or you have somehow deleted tar (/usr/bin/tar).
Cheers,
S
I'm running R2.8.1 on a Mac OS 10.4.11. While trying to install the
package gdata, I was presented with the following (error at end of
report):
install.packages("gdata")
also installing the dependency ‘gtools’
trying URL
'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.8/gtools_2.5.0-1.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-tar' length 85484 bytes (83 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 83 Kb
trying URL
'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.8/gdata_2.4.2.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-tar' length 539301 bytes (526 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 526 Kb
/bin/sh: line 1: tar: command not found
2009-03-02 20:42:06.081 R[357] tossing reply message sequence 3 on
thread 0x1ce3ae0
Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
argument is missing, with no default
It seems that 'tar' is missing which (I'm guessing) leads to an
error in sprintf(). I've never been presented with this error
before. I tried loading various other packages and received the
same error. When the error first appeared, I was running R2.5.3.
After upgrading to R2.8.1 the error persists.
Thanks in advance for any help--
Andy Rominger
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