Installing packages from .gz files

Tim,

Are you sure it is a binary package? Try a source install (or look in 
the uncompressed version of the package to see whether the gamlss/R/ 
directory is full of R code or has binary files with extensions .rdb and 
.rdx) You might also check permissions to make sure R has admin authority 
to install it system-wide (assuming that's where you want it), e.g. by 
clicking the lock at the top of the R interpreter window and 
authenticating. You definitely want to point at the .tar.gz file, not the 
uncompressed versions and I assume you have gunzip and tar (man gunzip and 
man tar should give you their help pages respectively in a terminal 
window if they are correctly installed). Otherwise I'm not sure what the 
problem is.

Walton

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:23:56 +0000
From: Tim Cole <tim.cole at ich.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing packages from .gz files
To: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
Cc: Mikis Stasinopoulos <d.stasinopoulos at londonmet.ac.uk>
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I've been given an updated version of the gamlss package as a .tar.gz
file, but I'm struggling to install it with the package installer. I
specify Local Binary Package at the top, but when I Install and
select the file I get errors whichever of the three possible files I
point to - the .tar.gz file or .tar file or the gamlss folder. What
am I doing wrong?

The .gz file error is:
Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning message:
cannot open compressed file 'gamlss_1.4-6.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION'

Thanks,
Tim Cole
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