great...thank you
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Uwe Ligges <[email protected] > wrote: > > > 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:<[email protected]> 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 < >> [email protected]> 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 >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] 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. >> >> -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Mathematical and Statistics University of Houston - Downtown mailto: [email protected] [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
