/bin/sh: tar: command not found
Ok, I guess I was being a bit unhelpful. You are trying to install a binary from Bioconductor. This should work out of the box. What version of R are you using. If you are doing 64bit computing you need to install from source. Of course, that does not change that tar seems to be missing which is a mystery. But my guess is that you have done something non-standard since for most people it works out of the box. Kasper
On Oct 3, 2008, at 14:14 , Ben Bolker wrote:
[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote:
Hi Ben, Andrew, I am facing the same problem (R 2.7.2 running on Mac OS X 10.5.5 Build 9F33; MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.5 GHz); tar is in the path... GMXUX-Ricardo-Rodriguez:~ rrodriguez$ tar tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. Here an error. This installation usually does work... *****
install.packages("reshape")
also installing the dependency 'plyr' trying URL 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/plyr_0.1.tgz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 544654 bytes (531 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 531 Kb trying URL 'http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.7/reshape_0.8.1.tgz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 94353 bytes (92 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 92 Kb /bin/sh: tar: command not found Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) : argument is missing, with no default ***** Any idea, please? Thanks! Greetings, Ricardo Ben Bolker wrote:
This is my package, but I don't think there's anything wrong with the package (the check summary on CRAN says it's OK). Does this happen with all packages? Have you tried a different mirror? (123 K seems like a reasonable size for this package). On the other hand, the specific error message says the problem is that R can't find the "tar" command -- is it in your path? Ben Bolker (not a Mac person)
Since this is not my package (and I'm still not a Mac user), I really have no idea ... I never heard back from Andrew, don't know if he found a solution or if the problem went away by itself good luck Ben
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