The package installer seems somewhat restrictive at present. I downloaded the "rgl.tar.tgz" file, and Safari automatically unpacked it to tar (helpful hint: to stop this, option click the link, and it will simply be downloaded "as is" to the download folder, without post processing).
R then barfed on the .tar package, saying it was not a tgz, and then finding a (spurious?) error on the tar call.In fact is was a valid tar, which untars just fine. Suggestion: look at the extension on local file imports, and behave appropriately: if it is "tar" then skip the unzip action. Also, .zip (the OS X archive default) is not a legal compression: only the close relative tgz is accepted: is this unnecessarily restrictive? Finally, installing from a local package directory seems broken: if you select the package folder, it is simply ignored (error = no package selected) If you select the package folder's container, you get the error "no packages found". Both seem buggy to me? Tim _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
