Hello everyone! I'm trying to install R-3.1.2 from source on a Windows 8 laptop. I installed Rtools 3.1 as administrator and is was fine so far. Then I downloaded the R-3.1.2.tar.gz file and attempted to use the tar command, also from the shell as administrator. I keep getting the following: tar -xf R-3.1.2.tar.gz tar(child): gzip: Cannot exec: no such file or directory tar(child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors I have downloaded from several different mirrors, (both Rtools and R-3.1.2.tar.gz), and have turned off the firewall (McAfee). Has anyone else run into this, please? Thanks so much, Sincerely, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Mathematical and Statistics University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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On November 29, 2014 8:51:23 PM PST, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at
gmail.com> wrote:>Hello everyone!
>
>I'm trying to install R-3.1.2 from source on a Windows 8 laptop.
>
>I installed Rtools 3.1 as administrator and is was fine so far.
>
>Then I downloaded the R-3.1.2.tar.gz file and attempted to use the tar
>command,
>also from the shell as administrator.
>
>I keep getting the following:
>tar -xf R-3.1.2.tar.gz
>tar(child): gzip: Cannot exec: no such file or directory
>tar(child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>tar: Child returned status 2
>tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>
>I have downloaded from several different mirrors, (both Rtools and
>R-3.1.2.tar.gz), and have turned off the firewall (McAfee).
>
>Has anyone else run into this, please?
>
>Thanks so much,
>Sincerely,
>Erin
On 30.11.2014 06:29, Jeff Newmiller wrote:> Stop using administrator. If and only if Windows prompts you for permission to install, give it your password. Stay as far away from administrator as you can.Which is not the reason here: gzip is not on the PATH, i.e. Erin forgot to put the Rtools/bin directory on her PATH... Best, Uwe Ligges> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > On November 29, 2014 8:51:23 PM PST, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello everyone! >> >> I'm trying to install R-3.1.2 from source on a Windows 8 laptop. >> >> I installed Rtools 3.1 as administrator and is was fine so far. >> >> Then I downloaded the R-3.1.2.tar.gz file and attempted to use the tar >> command, >> also from the shell as administrator. >> >> I keep getting the following: >> tar -xf R-3.1.2.tar.gz >> tar(child): gzip: Cannot exec: no such file or directory >> tar(child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now >> tar: Child returned status 2 >> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors >> >> I have downloaded from several different mirrors, (both Rtools and >> R-3.1.2.tar.gz), and have turned off the firewall (McAfee). >> >> Has anyone else run into this, please? >> >> Thanks so much, >> Sincerely, >> Erin > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >