Hi Mark, Thanks for the suggestion and for setting me straight about my operating system. I will contact my collaborator. Best, Sarah
On 8/3/09 1:59 PM, "Marc Schwartz" <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > On Aug 3, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Sarah Hawley wrote: > >> I am trying to install a package from a collaborator that was given >> to me as >> a zip file. >> I'm running R 2.9.0 using Mac OSX 10.5.7 >> [R.app GUI 1.28 (5395) i386-apple-darwin8.11.1] >> >> foo.zip contains all the usual package directories (man, R, R-ex, etc) >> After unzipping foo, I used the following commands. >> >> $ R CMD INSTALL foo >> * Installing to library /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/ >> library¹ >> * Installing *binary* package foo¹ ... >> * DONE (foo) >> >> I open the R GUI and type >>> library(foo) >> Error: package 'flsa' is not installed for 'arch=i386' >> >> I assume this error has something to do with my Linux architecture >> but I >> have no idea what is really going on. >> Any suggestions would be appreciated. >> >> Thank you. >> Sarah > > Sarah, > > It looks like your colleague gave you a Windows binary version of the > package. You cannot just unzip it and install it as such. The ZIP file > would be the result of running 'R CMD build foo' on the package source > tree on Windows, which does more than just archive the files in the > package tree. > > This has nothing to do with Linux BTW, as Mac OSX is a BSD Unix > derivative, not Linux, albeit they are cousins of a sort... :-) > > Can your colleague provide you with just the actual source files in a > tar or zip file without running R CMD build foo? If so, you can at > least transfer the source files to your Mac and possibly build the > package there for installation. This process will also be less > complicated if the package only contains R code and no C or FORTRAN > code. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > -- Sarah Hawley Data Analyst Canary Foundation sa...@canaryfoundation.org 415.412.2533 www.canaryfoundation.org Stopping cancer early... the best possible investment! ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
