Amelia on Mac OS X - Amelia

18 Aug 2006

	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
 ##
 ##  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
 ==================================================
 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

napaxton(a)fas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~napaxton
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