Install local binary package on a Mac

2 messages · PhilippeR, Duncan Murdoch

Tue, Mar 24, 2009 9:35 PM #

Dear readers,
I would like to install a local binary package (.tar file) on a Mac (OSX
10.5.6) with R 2.8.0...

I tried :

mypkgdir = "/Users/philippesaner/Desktop/Rpkgs"

install.packages("R2WinBUGS_2.1-12.tar", destdir = mypkgdir, lib =
"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library", repos=NULL)




and get the following error message:

tar (child): R2WinBUGS_2.1-12.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Fehler in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) : 
  Argument fehlt ohne Standard



Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong?
Thanks a lot for help,
Philippe

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Duncan Murdoch

Wed, Mar 25, 2009 3:51 AM #

PhilippeR wrote:

How did the package get created?  .tar is not an extension used by R.  
(Source packages are .tar.gz on all platforms, binary packages are .tgz 
on Mac OS.)

Duncan Murdoch