I was hoping that new release 4.7 will fix the problem, seeing that the ticket 5634 has been closed. However, I just tried to install a new package and got an error message:
===== Detected SAGE64 flag Building Sage on OS X in 64-bit mode ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Sage Version 4.7, Release Date: 2011-05-23 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sage: r.install_packages('actuar') R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > options(repos="http://cran.r-project.org/"); install.packages("actuar") trying URL 'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/actuar_1.1-2.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1457732 bytes (1.4 Mb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 1.4 Mb * installing *source* package ‘actuar’ ... ** libs Warning: R include directory is empty -- perhaps need to install R- devel.rpm or similar make: /Users/buildbot/build/sage/bsd-1/bsd_64_binary/build/sage-4.7/ local/lib/R/share/make/shlib.mk: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `/Users/buildbot/build/sage/bsd-1/ bsd_64_binary/build/sage-4.7/local/lib/R/share/make/shlib.mk'. Stop. ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘actuar’ * removing ‘/Applications/Sage-4.7-OSX-64bit-10.6.app/Contents/ Resources/sage/local/lib/R/library/actuar’ The downloaded packages are in ‘/private/var/folders/D8/D8+XDdMDEJ4XIybIIPvnt++++TQ/-Tmp-/RtmpZeAJMz/ downloaded_packages’ Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library' Warning messages: 1: In install.packages("actuar") : installation of package 'actuar' had non-zero exit status 2: In file.create(f.tg) : cannot create file '/Users/buildbot/build/sage/bsd-1/bsd_64_binary/ build/sage-4.7/local/lib/R/doc/html/packages.html', reason 'No such file or directory' 3: In tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library) : cannot create HTML package index > real 0m3.328s user 0m0.927s sys 0m0.196s Please restart Sage in order to use 'actuar'. sage: ===== I do not understand, am I missing something on my Mac or the way sage has been compiled for Mac still does not support R packages installation? Regards, Kirill -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org