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.
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
I am sorry, this was from 2.10.1 on Mac OS X 10.6, so it might be Mac-specific.
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
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
Yes, that worked, thanks a lot! Looking forward to the 2.11.0 release.
install.packages(~/Projects/R
Library/potsdam/eyetrackR/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz, repos = NULL, type =
source)
* installing *source* package ‘eyetrackR’ ...
** R
** data
** demo
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
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