On Aug 16, 2012, at 00:29 , Michael Donohue wrote:
After updating to R 2.15.1 on OS X 10.8, I am seeing:
install.packages(nlme_3.1-104.tar.gz, repos = NULL)
Error: file ‘nlme_3.1-104.tar.gz’ is not an OS X binary package
R CMD INSTALL is working fine, but I'm curious if anyone is having
I guess that the problem is that the .tar.gz file is . wait for it .
not a binary package for OS X. Those usually have .tgz extension, where as
.tar.gz files are usually source packages.
You might try type=source in install.packages.
Thanks, type=source, does work; though this
