[R] R INSTALL failure w/ Mac OSX

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Harry Mangalam wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We're having some problems with the Mac OSX port of R V1.2.3 binary that came from CRAN in that a (Perl) scripted installation of the xgobi library halts unexpectedly.  The commandline that fails is:
>
> R --silent INSTALL --library=/usr/local/genex/lib/R/library \
>  /Users/dan/sw/src/GeneX-Server-1.0.3/CyberT-dist/xgobi_1.2-2.tar.gz
>
> The comment from the affected user is:
>
>   It still hangs just after "Installing source package
>   'xgobi'", then " R" appears on the next line (including the space).

*That* happens if there are no Rq... files in the R directory.  Is tar
working correctly?  I would try untaring the package, checking that the
R/* files are there and then installing the unpacked version.

BTW, the hanging won't happen in the next release.

>
> I saw the thread on " Difficulty with R CMD INSTALL " and was wondering if others have had a similar problem on OSX.
>
> Using R 1.2.3 on x86 linux (RH & Debian), I've never seen this problem, so I'm wondering if it's a porting artefact.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Harry
>
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