So please try 2.11.0 alpha, as I believe this is already fixed (not
least, gzip is not called on that platform). Also, I suspect setting
the envir variable TAR to 'internal' would work on 2.10.1 (but my
Mac is at home).
Another thing that does not work with spaces in file names is
command-line completion of filenames (in R, I did not try R.app). If
spaces in filenames work (other than on Windows) it is somewhat
accidental. Reports of instances where they do not, with patches
against current sources, would be considered but as low priority.
BTW, 'install' works on case-insensitive file systems, but it is
likely to stop working at any time: as on Windows, 'R CMD' is being
moved away from Perl/sh scripts to direct use of R.
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, jochen laubrock wrote:
I am sorry, this was from 2.10.1 on Mac OS X 10.6, so it might be Mac-specific.
I did try it on a Mac, but I did not try 2.10.1, since the 'upgrade
before posting' request in the posting guide did apply, and we are
busy enough with 2.11.0 alpha.
The behavior is reproducible both from the shell and the GUI version of R
(sessionInfo output below). It does not seem to depend on the particular
package: it can be reproduced by downloading an archive of a package from CRAN
to a path containing spaces and calling
install.packages("path/with spaces/downloadedPackage.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type =
"source"):
print(dl <- download.packages("gam", destdir="~/Projects/R library/tmp"))
[...] downloaded 300 Kb
[,1] [,2]
[1,] "gam" "~/Projects/R library/tmp/gam_1.01.tgz"
install.packages(dl[,2], repos = NULL, type = "source")
[...]
gzip: /Users/jochen/Projects/R.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: library/tmp/gam_1.01.tgz: No such file or directory
ERROR: cannot extract package from ‘/Users/jochen/Projects/R
library/tmp/gam_1.01.tgz’
# /usr/bin/R
sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
locale:
[1] de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/C/C/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
# R.app (RAqua)
sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
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
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
On Mar 26, 2010, at 10:19 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
You haven't told us your version of R (nor any of the other
information requested in the posting guide). As far as I can see
this works in 2.11.0 alpha.
Does that mean that it has been re-designed to work with paths
containing spaces on Unix-alikes?
No. It is an unintentional side-effect of
o R CMD INSTALL now uses the internal untar() in package utils:
this ensures that all platforms can install bzip2- and
xz-compressed tarballs.
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, jochen laubrock wrote:
There appears to be a quoting problem in the way R CMD install handles file
names containing spaces, more specifically, in the way the argument is passed
through to gzip.
The install.packages command
(from R)
install.packages("~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type =
"source")
expands to
system("R_LIBS='/Users/foo/Library/R/2.10/library'
"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l
'/Users/foo/Library/R/2.10/library' '/Users/foo/Projects/R\
library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz'")
So that is fine.
and gives the same error messages as the following commands from Terminal.app
on Mac OS X
(from bash)
R CMD install /Users/foo/Projects/R\ library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz
R CMD install "~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz"
R CMD install '~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz'
the documented command is INSTALL.
sorry
, namely (the error messages):
gzip: /Users/foo/Projects/R.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz: No such file or directory
Yes, and INSTALL is not designed to work with paths with spaces in on
Unix-alikes.
The following commands do work
(from R)
setwd("~/Projects/R library/bar/")
install.packages("eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")
(from bash)
cd ~/Projects/R\ library/bar/
R CMD install eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz
Interestingly, if the file is unpacked on the command line (tar
xzvf), then both R CMD install and install.packages work fine
using the quoted path name syntax, i.e.,
R CMD install /Users/foo/Projects/R\ library/bar/eyetrackR
install.packages("~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR", repos = NULL, type =
"source")
Is this a known problem?
It is a known restriction.
I searched the archives, but did not find a decisive answer (only
some rather old posts suggesting not to use path names containing
spaces--unfortunately this is not an option in the managed Windows environment
I need to work in next week).
Sorry for the long post and thanks for your time,
Jochen
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