[R] installing package from source with Linux

[Jannis]

Thanks for your help, Phil! It works now!

Jannis

Phil Spector schrieb:
> Jannis -
>    I just downloaded asl-rssa-6f458e4.tar.gz and it installed
> on my Linux system under R-2.10.1 with no problems, but gave
> me similar errors under R-2.12.0.   You can get around the problem 
> like this:
>
> tar xvfz asl-rssa-6f458e4.tar.gz
> R CMD INSTALL asl-rssa-6f458e4
>
> Hope this helps.
>                                                    - Phil
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Jannis wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>>
>> this may not be related to R but rather to my OS, but I do not 
>> understand the issue of compiling R packages deeply enough to figure 
>> out the exact cause of the problem.
>>
>> I am trying to install a R package from source as it is not yet 
>> available under Cran (Rssa, downloaded here: 
>> https://github.com/asl/rssa).
>>
>> Running
>>
>> sudo R CMD INSTALL asl-rssa-6f458e4.tar.gz
>>
>> from the console however gives me these error messages:
>>
>> Warnung in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) :
>>   checksum error for entry 'pax_global_header'
>> Fehler in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : unsupported entry 
>> type ‘g’
>>
>> Does anybody have any hints on how to solve this? Do I have the wrong 
>> packing program installed?
>>
>> I am trying this with Ubuntu 9.10 and the following R system:
>>
>> > sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>> Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>  [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8
>>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
>>  [7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.12.0
>>
>> Thanks for any hints! Trying the same with another package downloaded 
>> from Cran worked.
>>
>> Jannis
>>
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