R CMD install: problem quoting spaces when calling gzip?
I am sorry, this was from 2.10.1 on Mac OS X 10.6, so it might be Mac-specific. The behavior is reproducible both from the shell and the GUI version of R (sessionInfo output below). It does not seem to depend on the particular package: it can be reproduced by downloading an archive of a package from CRAN to a path containing spaces and calling
install.packages("path/with spaces/downloadedPackage.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source"):
print(dl <- download.packages("gam", destdir="~/Projects/R library/tmp"))
[...] downloaded 300 Kb
[,1] [,2]
[1,] "gam" "~/Projects/R library/tmp/gam_1.01.tgz"
install.packages(dl[,2], repos = NULL, type = "source")
[...] gzip: /Users/jochen/Projects/R.gz: No such file or directory gzip: library/tmp/gam_1.01.tgz: No such file or directory ERROR: cannot extract package from ?/Users/jochen/Projects/R library/tmp/gam_1.01.tgz? # /usr/bin/R
sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 locale: [1] de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/C/C/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base # R.app (RAqua)
sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0 locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
On Mar 26, 2010, at 10:19 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
You haven't told us your version of R (nor any of the other information requested in the posting guide). As far as I can see this works in 2.11.0 alpha.
Does that mean that it has been re-designed to work with paths containing spaces on Unix-alikes?
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, jochen laubrock wrote:
There appears to be a quoting problem in the way R CMD install handles file names containing spaces, more specifically, in the way the argument is passed through to gzip.
The install.packages command
(from R)
install.packages("~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")
expands to
system("R_LIBS='/Users/foo/Library/R/2.10/library' "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l '/Users/foo/Library/R/2.10/library' '/Users/foo/Projects/R\ library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz'")
So that is fine.
and gives the same error messages as the following commands from Terminal.app on Mac OS X (from bash) R CMD install /Users/foo/Projects/R\ library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz R CMD install "~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz" R CMD install '~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz'
the documented command is INSTALL.
sorry
, namely (the error messages): gzip: /Users/foo/Projects/R.gz: No such file or directory gzip: library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz: No such file or directory
Yes, and INSTALL is not designed to work with paths with spaces in on Unix-alikes.
The following commands do work
(from R)
setwd("~/Projects/R library/bar/")
install.packages("eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")
(from bash)
cd ~/Projects/R\ library/bar/
R CMD install eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz
Interestingly, if the file is unpacked on the command line (tar xzvf), then both R CMD install and install.packages work fine using the quoted path name syntax, i.e.,
R CMD install /Users/foo/Projects/R\ library/bar/eyetrackR
install.packages("~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR", repos = NULL, type = "source")
Is this a known problem?
It is a known restriction.
I searched the archives, but did not find a decisive answer (only
some rather old posts suggesting not to use path names containing spaces--unfortunately this is not an option in the managed Windows environment I need to work in next week).
Sorry for the long post and thanks for your time, Jochen ---- Jochen Laubrock, Dept. of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany phone: +49-331-977-2346, fax: +49-331-977-2793
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