[R] R unable to locate base unix commands (tar, sh etc)

[stephen sefick]

I work on a Mac now. I believe .profile gets sourced first and then
.bashrc. I set PATH in my .bashrc. I set a git token in .Renviron and a
blank .Rprofile because I use packrat quite often. I have no problem with
my environment at a shell or in Rstudio.

I would start by commenting where you set the PATH in the multiple files
until you find the order they are sourced. Or look in .profile and .bashrc
to find and replace the semi colons with colons?

I do not understand how a PATH variable would be set in .Rprofile.

I agree with pd about the semicolons.

What happens when you type tar at a command prompt?
FWIW,

Stephen

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 20:13 peter dalgaard <pdalgd using gmail.com> wrote:

> Semicolons in PATH on a Unix derivative like MacOS could well do that to
> you. It is not clear how they got there, but apparently not from your
> ~/.Environ file. However, multiple settings of the same PATH variable in
> .Environment is not something I'd think would work. Persumably the last
> setting wins, but I'm not sure of that.
>
> -pd
>
> > On 15 Oct 2019, at 15:09 , gordon beattie <gordo2b using hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Started having a problem installing packages where R can't find base
> unix commands. I've put an example below (other packages have identical
> "command not found" errors, sometimes with different commands e.g. sh) and
> my PATH/.Renviron(where the problem likely is). I'm on MacOS. Thanks in
> advance for any assistance!
> >
> >> install.packages("hdf5r",
> configure.args="--with-hdf5=/usr/local/Cellar/hdf5/1.10.5_1/bin/h5cc")
> > trying URL '
> https://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6/hdf5r_1.3.0.tgz
> '
> > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 4332333 bytes (4.1 MB)
> > ==================================================
> > downloaded 4.1 MB
> >
> > sh: tar: command not found
> > Error: file
> �/var/folders/ll/jmydhb6n7jqg5rv_c58jxkkh0000gn/T//RtmpnssBh2/downloaded_packages/hdf5r_1.3.0.tgz�
> is not a macOS binary package
> > In addition: Warning messages:
> > 1: In system(paste0("tar zxf \"", path.expand(what), "\" -C \"",
> path.expand(where),  :
> >  error in running command
> > 2: 'tar' returned non-zero exit code 127
> >
> > PATH:
> >
> >> Sys.getenv("PATH")
> > [1] "/bin;/usr/bin;/usr/local/bin"
> >
> > .Renviron (could anyone explain why "Sys.getenv" doesn't output the
> contents of Renviron, trying to understand how they link)
> >
> > .RenvironR_LIBS=~/R/library
> > PAGER=/usr/local/bin/less
> > PATH=/Users/gordon.beattie/Downloads/R_packages/gliph-master/gliph/bin
> > PATH=/usr/local/bin
> > PATH=/usr/local/bin
> > PATH=/usr/bin
> > PATH=/bin
> > PATH=/usr/sbin
> > PATH=/sbin
> > PATH=/Users/gordon.beattie/.virtualenvs/r-reticulate/bin
> > PATH=/Users/gordon.beattie/.virtualenvs/r-reticulate/bin
> > PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin
> > PATH=/sbin
> > PATH=/usr/local/bin
> >
> >
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