Following up on this, everything seemed to work fine on my mac after
installing from source like this:
install.packages("ReadMe", repos="http://gking.harvard.edu",
type=source)
Someone had mentioned that I would have to deal with installing Perl -- I
believe they meant Python, but both come installed on OS X anyway. The demo
worked out the box.
Andy
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Andy Eggers <aeggers(a)fas.harvard.edu>wrote;wrote:
> I tried installing readme (R 2.8.1, on mac) and got the following results:
> >
install.packages("ReadMe",repos="http://gking.harvard.edu")
>> also installing the dependency 'VA'
>
>> trying URL '
>>
http://gking.harvard.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.8/VA_0.9-2.9.tgz…
>> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>> cannot open URL '
>>
http://gking.harvard.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.8/VA_0.9-2.9.tgz…
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>> cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>> Warning in download.packages(p0, destdir = tmpd, available = available, :
>> download of package 'VA' failed
>> trying URL '
>>
http://gking.harvard.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.8/ReadMe_0.991.tgz
>> '
>> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>> cannot open URL '
>>
http://gking.harvard.edu/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.8/ReadMe_0.991.tgz
>> '
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>> cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>> Warning in download.packages(p0, destdir = tmpd, available = available, :
>> download of package 'ReadMe' failed
>
> Should I try to install an older version?
> Thanks.
> Andy