A few days ago I sent an email in which I said I could not install or
update binary packages using the R.app GUI. While this remains true,
I can install packages in R.app using the command "install.packages
("my_package_name")".
So there seems to be a bug in the latest version of R.app for the
package installer GUI.
Using a completely new installation of R does not fix this issue.
I'm using the latest OS X install.
-Dave
I think this came up recently, but I've deleted my email. I cannot install compiled packages. I get this error using R Version 1.16 (3198): trying URL 'http://www.biometrics.mtu.edu/CRAN/bin/macosx/powerpc/ contrib/2.3/qtl_1.03-14.tgz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 864112 bytes opened URL ================================================== downloaded 843Kb Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) : argument is missing, with no default tar: ~/Library/R/library/file4431b782: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
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