Dear list, this may not be related to R but rather to my OS, but I do not understand the issue of compiling R packages deeply enough to figure out the exact cause of the problem. I am trying to install a R package from source as it is not yet available under Cran (Rssa, downloaded here: https://github.com/asl/rssa). Running sudo R CMD INSTALL asl-rssa-6f458e4.tar.gz from the console however gives me these error messages: Warnung in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : checksum error for entry 'pax_global_header' Fehler in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : unsupported entry type ?g? Does anybody have any hints on how to solve this? Do I have the wrong packing program installed? I am trying this with Ubuntu 9.10 and the following R system: > sessionInfo() R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.12.0 Thanks for any hints! Trying the same with another package downloaded from Cran worked. Jannis
It defenitely seems to be related to the zipping/tar program. "Untaring" the file with gzip/tar and then installing the uncompressed folder with R CMD INSTALL seems to work (it gives quite a bunch of warnings though....). Jannis schrieb:> Dear list, > > > this may not be related to R but rather to my OS, but I do not > understand the issue of compiling R packages deeply enough to figure > out the exact cause of the problem. > > I am trying to install a R package from source as it is not yet > available under Cran (Rssa, downloaded here: > https://github.com/asl/rssa). > > Running > > sudo R CMD INSTALL asl-rssa-6f458e4.tar.gz > > from the console however gives me these error messages: > > Warnung in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : > checksum error for entry 'pax_global_header' > Fehler in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : unsupported entry type > ?g? > > Does anybody have any hints on how to solve this? Do I have the wrong > packing program installed? > > I am trying this with Ubuntu 9.10 and the following R system: > > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) > Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_2.12.0 > > Thanks for any hints! Trying the same with another package downloaded > from Cran worked. > > Jannis > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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.
Jannis -
I just downloaded asl-rssa-6f458e4.tar.gz and it installed
on my Linux system under R-2.10.1 with no problems, but gave
me similar errors under R-2.12.0. You can get around the
problem like this:
tar xvfz asl-rssa-6f458e4.tar.gz
R CMD INSTALL asl-rssa-6f458e4
Hope this helps.
- Phil
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Jannis wrote:
> Dear list,
>
>
> this may not be related to R but rather to my OS, but I do not
> understand the issue of compiling R packages deeply enough to figure out
> the exact cause of the problem.
>
> I am trying to install a R package from source as it is not yet
> available under Cran (Rssa, downloaded here: https://github.com/asl/rssa).
>
> Running
>
> sudo R CMD INSTALL asl-rssa-6f458e4.tar.gz
>
> from the console however gives me these error messages:
>
> Warnung in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) :
> checksum error for entry 'pax_global_header'
> Fehler in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : unsupported entry type ?g?
>
> Does anybody have any hints on how to solve this? Do I have the wrong
> packing program installed?
>
> I am trying this with Ubuntu 9.10 and the following R system:
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.12.0
>
> Thanks for any hints! Trying the same with another package downloaded
> from Cran worked.
>
> Jannis
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at 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.
>