Hi there,

I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.7 (PPC) and R 2.3.1.  I've tried several times to install Amelia from source into R, and I keep getting an error message back that indicates that it seems to have been built for pentium chips.  A transcript of the R session follows.  I loaded Zelig in, then tried to load Amelia in.  (Result: "Error: package 'Amelia' was built for i386-pc-mingw32")  When the latter failed, I tried to install from the gking.harvard.edu repository, and I got the error message "chmod: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/library/Amelia/libs/ppc/*"

Is this something to be fixed on my end or on the other end?

Thanks for any help you can give.

Best,
-N

Loading required package: MASS
Loading required package: boot
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##  Zelig (Version 2.6-3, built: 2006-06-19)
##  Please refer to http://gking.harvard.edu/zelig for full documentation
##  or help.zelig() for help with commands and models supported by Zelig.
##
Error: package 'Amelia' was built for i386-pc-mingw32
trying URL 'http://gking.harvard.edu/src/contrib/Amelia_1.1-4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3306791 bytes
opened URL
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downloaded 3229Kb

WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
* Installing *source* package 'Amelia' ...
** libs
** R
WARNING: no source files found
chmod: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/library/Amelia/libs/ppc/*: No such file or directory
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
>>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'Amelia'
     Formats: text html latex example
  am-internal                       text    html    latex
  amelia                            text    html    latex
  amelia.package                    text    html    latex
  ameliagui                         text    html    latex
** building package indices ...
* DONE (Amelia)
chmod: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/library/R.css: Operation not permitted

The downloaded packages are in
/private/tmp/Rtmp1rNFkw/downloaded_packages
> 

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Nathan A. Paxton
Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Government, Harvard University

Resident Tutor
John Winthrop House, Harvard University

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