Dear Mr Moderator, please let me through. I want to reply to my own
thread. I once subscribed to this list, but then my subscription was not
accepted.
Now to the business:
The final failure came from missing .install.macbinary() function. I
grepped R-patched sourcesand the only instance of .install.macbinary()
was the call to the function in R-
patched/src/library/utils/R/packages2.R (stupid automatic linefeed in
mail composer: just parse it). There was no definition of the function,
so I don't know from where should that function be loaded. I looked at
the R-patched/src/library/utils/R/aqua/GUI.R today (it was the only
file in that directory), and it had a function install.binaries() (but
no .install.macbinary()). So it might be that .install.macbinary()
function was supposed to call this function, and there is a naming
conflict.
My intention was to look at editing this piece today so that I would
change the call of .install.macbinary() into call of install.binaries,
but the sanguine(*) R in MacOS X refuses to start in GUI mode today with
uninformative error message (The application R has unexpectedly
quit.). So it seems not be the only problem in the MacOS X build of R
at CRAN. Starting from bash prompt in Terminal.app fails as well with
error .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'tcltk'. After starting X,
R starts even from Terminal.app, but still fails when clicking the icon.
Anyway, I hope this helps.
(*) you may replace this with a synonymous Saxon adjective (English
word, Germanic/Norse origin).
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 16:14 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Binary installs are AFAIK only supported in the GUI, where the default is
as documented. So .install.macbinary() is not loaded except in the GUI.
The reason is that those binaries are tied to that particular build of R,
and will not work with a general build on MacOS X.
I would expect this to work from the command-line in the GUI console, and
had believed it had been tested there.
On Tue, 3 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Full_Name: Jari Oksanen
Version: R 2.1.0
OS: MacOS 10.3.9
Submission from: (NULL) (130.231.102.145)
For various reasons (which need not be expanded here) I have tried to
update my
long neglected R in MacOS X using handy command line tool update.packages()
using readily available binaries of contributed packages at CRAN. However,
this
fails with message saying that packages _*_tar.gz is not found at the
server
(HTTP error 404). Obviously, the package name is expanded wrongly as the
binary
packages for MacOS X have type *.tgz. However, this seems not be the
problem,
but there are two other problems:
1. update.packages does not transfer the value of 'type' to the next
function
install.packages, but install.packages uses the value of
getOption(pkgType)
which seems to be source in CRAN binary of MacOS X (contrary to
documentation
at ?options).
2. If this is corrected, or first set options(pkgType=mac.binary), the
update
fails for missing function .install.macbinary().
The first problem is easy to correct:
--- update.packages.R 2005-05-03 17:13:36.0 +0300
+++ jarioksa.update.packages.R 2005-05-03 17:13:58.0 +0300
@@ -59,5 +59,5 @@
install.packages(update[, Package], instlib, contriburl =
contriburl,
method = method, available = available, destdir = destdir,
-installWithVers = installWithVers, type)
+installWithVers = installWithVers, type = type)
}
}
For the second, problem, I don't know what to do. grepping
R-patched_2005-05-03.tar.gz source found only one instance of
.install.macbinary(): the failed call in
R-patched/src/library/utils/R/packages2.R. I couldn't find the definition
of the
function.
Do I really have to use GUI? Uh.
cheers, jari oksanen
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