Error loading packages, command 'tar' missing from path?
To Simon: this was Mac-specific as only on Macs does install.packages use this piece of code (and we had a surplus comma in the gettextf call). I've never used 10.4.11 and don't know if /usr/bin/tar is part of the base OS or of Xcode on that version. I was hoping the Mac aficionados would know, my main reason for referring Andrew here.
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Andrew J. Rominger wrote:
Thanks to all for your help and suggestions. I apparently did somehow delete tar. In the terminal i get: $ which tar no tar in /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin Sorry to be a little slow, but I'm not familiar with working in the terminal so I'm sure there is a way to "reset" the path--but I don't know how to do it. And I don't want to mess anything up any more! Could anyone direct me as to where I can properly learn about resetting the path to include tar? Thanks very much-- Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> To: "Andrew J. Rominger" <rominger at stanford.edu> Cc: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 7:31:26 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Error loading packages, command 'tar' missing from path? On Mar 3, 2009, at 17:52 , Andrew J. Rominger wrote:
Hello all, My appologies for any possible cross-posting--I originally posted a version of this to R-Help, but was refered to r-sig-mac because apparently my problem is mac-specific.
It is specific to your system - experience (see archives) shows that either you somehow changed the default PATH and it doesn't include / usr/bin anymore or you have somehow deleted tar (/usr/bin/tar). Cheers, S
I'm running R2.8.1 on a Mac OS 10.4.11. While trying to install the package gdata, I was presented with the following (error at end of report):
install.packages("gdata")
also installing the dependency ?gtools? trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.8/gtools_2.5.0-1.tgz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 85484 bytes (83 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 83 Kb trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.8/gdata_2.4.2.tgz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 539301 bytes (526 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 526 Kb /bin/sh: line 1: tar: command not found 2009-03-02 20:42:06.081 R[357] tossing reply message sequence 3 on thread 0x1ce3ae0 Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) : argument is missing, with no default It seems that 'tar' is missing which (I'm guessing) leads to an error in sprintf(). I've never been presented with this error before. I tried loading various other packages and received the same error. When the error first appeared, I was running R2.5.3. After upgrading to R2.8.1 the error persists. Thanks in advance for any help-- Andy Rominger
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