Has anyone come up with a solution to adding binaries to R 2.4.0 or 2.4.1? I am trying to install several packages that always fail. I am running a Mac Pro and lost lots of functionality after upgrading from 2.3.1. I have tried manually downloading the packages, but they won't even uncompress in the finder. I think there are a bunch of bad packages out there. so far I have issues with rgl and fBasics. I've tried the cran library and the one at BioConductor and I get the same errors. Here is an example... trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/ 2.4/rgl_0.68.tgz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1649254 bytes opened URL ================================================== downloaded 1610Kb Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) : argument is missing, with no default In addition: Warning message: no package 'file43cd3747' was found in: packageDescription(p, lib = lib, fields = fields, encoding = NA) tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > Alternatively I wouldn't mind going back to 2.3.1, but I can't find it anywhere.. Can anyone help? Thanks Ken
R-SIG-Mac Digest, Vol 47, Issue 13
2 messages · knussear, Simon Urbanek
Ken,
On Jan 18, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Ken Nussear wrote:
Has anyone come up with a solution to adding binaries to R 2.4.0 or 2.4.1? I am trying to install several packages that always fail. I am running a Mac Pro and lost lots of functionality after upgrading from 2.3.1. I have tried manually downloading the packages, but they won't even uncompress in the finder. I think there are a bunch of bad packages out there. so far I have issues with rgl and fBasics.
Hm... strange, no problems here (CRAN R 2.4.1, Mac Pro, OS X 10.4.8)
and I was specifically using the same mirror:
> install.packages("rgl")
trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/
2.4/rgl_0.68.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1649254 bytes
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 1610Kb
The downloaded packages are in
/tmp/RtmpIydIm9/downloaded_packages
> library(rgl)
>
Can you, please, send me more detailed info: Did you try another
mirror? Is the package file downloaded correctly? Did you try to
unpack the downloaded file manually? Do you have any proxy or
firewall that could impede the download? Can you install the package
manually (i.e. by downloading it with a browser and using the package
installer to install it from the file)?
Thanks,
Simon
I've tried the cran library and the one at BioConductor and I get the same errors. Here is an example... trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/ 2.4/rgl_0.68.tgz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1649254 bytes opened URL ================================================== downloaded 1610Kb Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) : argument is missing, with no default In addition: Warning message: no package 'file43cd3747' was found in: packageDescription(p, lib = lib, fields = fields, encoding = NA) tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Alternatively I wouldn't mind going back to 2.3.1, but I can't find it anywhere.. Can anyone help? Thanks Ken
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