On Mar 5, 2009, at 4:42 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
To Simon: this was Mac-specific as only on Macs does
install.packages use this piece of code (and we had a surplus comma
in the gettextf call).
I've never used 10.4.11 and don't know if /usr/bin/tar is part of
the base OS or of Xcode on that version. I was hoping the Mac
aficionados would know, my main reason for referring Andrew here.
tar is part of the base system, i.e. it is always installed on OS X
(no Xcode needed). On the Tiger DVD it's in
/System/Installation/Packages/BaseSystem.pkg
so you can restore it from there.
Cheers,
S
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Andrew J. Rominger wrote:
Thanks to all for your help and suggestions. I apparently did
somehow delete tar. In the terminal i get:
$ which tar
no tar in /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin
Sorry to be a little slow, but I'm not familiar with working in the
terminal so I'm sure there is a way to "reset" the path--but I
don't know how to do it. And I don't want to mess anything up any
more! Could anyone direct me as to where I can properly learn
about resetting the path to include tar?
Thanks very much--
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Urbanek" <[email protected]>
To: "Andrew J. Rominger" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 7:31:26 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada
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Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Error loading packages, command 'tar'
missing from path?
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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