problem installing binary package with install.packages

Just to be clear, will using 'R CMD build --binary packageName' then  
renaming the resulting file 'packageName_version.tgz' yield a valid  
binary package for Mac OS X?

Thanks,
Kjell

On Nov 7, 2008, at 11:28 , Kjell Konis wrote:

There seems to be a bug when using install.packages to install a
local binary package. Installing the package using R CMD INSTALL in
a shell works fine.

file.exists("/u/smat/konis/Documents/Projects/RHugin_0.5-3_R_i386-
apple-darwin8.11.1.tar.gz")
[1] TRUE

install.packages("/u/smat/konis/Documents/Projects/
RHugin_0.5-3_R_i386-apple-darwin8.11.1.tar.gz", repos = NULL)
Avis dans install.packages("/u/smat/konis/Documents/Projects/
RHugin_0.5-3_R_i386-apple-darwin8.11.1.tar.gz",  :
 l'argument 'lib' manque : '/u/smat/konis/Library/R/2.8/library' est
utilis?
Erreur dans gzfile(file, "r") : impossible d'ouvrir la connexion
De plus : Warning message:
In gzfile(file, "r") :
 impossible d'ouvrir le fichier compress? 'RHugin_0.5-3_R_i386-apple-
darwin8.11.1.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', cause probable : 'No such file or
directory'

Binary packages for Mac OS X are expected to have the extension .tgz
so the above is not a valid binary package (see 6.3.2 in R-admin).

In addition binary packages for Mac OS X are expected to have the
filename packageName_version.tgz, therefore files with platform
designation are not supported, either. This is different from other
unix systems. I have relaxed the requirements for
install.packages(,repos=NULL) in R-devel but I would still strongly
recommend to adhere to the above rules.

Cheers,
Simon

Sys.info()

                 sysname

                "Darwin
"

                 release

                 "9.5.0
"

                 version
"Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep  3 11:29:43 PDT 2008;
root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386"

                nodename

      "imamac05
.epfl.ch"

                 machine

                  "i386
"

                   login

                 "konis
"

                    user

                 "konis
"

version
              _
platform       i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
arch           i386
os             darwin8.11.1
system         i386, darwin8.11.1
status
major          2
minor          8.0
year           2008
month          10
day            20
svn rev        46754
language       R
version.string R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)

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