Hi, this is a possible (minor) bug report for R.app GUI: Installing a source package from R.app GUI fails when the path to the package contains a blank. For example, after a click on "Install..." button and selection of package eyetrackR_0.12.tar.gz, the following error indicates that the argument passed on to gzip was not correctly escaped. gzip: /Users/jochen/Projects/R.gz: No such file or directory gzip: library/potsdam/eyetrackR/eyetrackR_0.12.tar.gz: No such file or directory ERROR: cannot extract package from ?/Users/jochen/Projects/R library/potsdam/eyetrackR/eyetrackR_0.12.tar.gz? Everything works fine from Terminal.app using R CMD install eyetrackR_0.12.tar.gz Best, jochen R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0 locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
installation of source packages in R.app: pathnames not escaped correctly?
1 message · Jochen Laubrock