problems installing packages since upgrade to 2.4.1

Duncan,

On Jan 9, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

On 1/9/2007 1:34 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

Ken,
On Jan 9, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Ken Nussear wrote:

I upgraded R to 2.4.1 yesterday and I'm having problems   
reinstalling some packages I had installed before and that I  
need  for some modeling.

I've tried rgl and fBasics and I get similar error messages (see   
below).

Has anyone had luck with this?

This looks like a problem with the mirror - did you try another  
CRAN  mirror? If in doubt, a good test is to try the master CRAN  
repository...

The version of rgl is also a couple of releases out of date, but I  
see that's what is currently on CRAN as the MacOSX binary.  The  
problem is that the examples in rgl won't run without an X11 server.

current rgl doesn't pass make check, that's why it's not available in  
binary form:
http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-patched-macosx-ix86/ 
rgl-00check.html

Should I put it on fake install?

Cheers,
Simon

Could you special case rgl, so it gets built?

Duncan Murdoch

Cheers,
Simon

Thanks

Ken

trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/universal/ 
contrib/
2.4/rgl_0.68.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1649254 bytes
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 1610Kb

Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
	argument is missing, with no default
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: A lone zero block at 1730

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/universal/ 
contrib/
2.4/fBasics_240.10068.1.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1412462 bytes
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 1379Kb

tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Read 10235 bytes from /tmp/RtmpyBlfBq/downloaded_packages/
fEcofin_240.10067.tgz
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
	argument is missing, with no default
In addition: Warning message:
installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status in:
install.packages(c("rgl"), lib = "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
Resources/library/",