[R] R on mac not installing packages

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londonphd

2013-02-22 20:15:53 UTC

Hi, I have not been able to use R in my macbook pro. I am getting the
following error message every time i try to install a package

* installing *source* package ?Hmisc? ...
** package ?Hmisc? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
*** arch - i386
sh: make: command not found
ERROR: compilation failed for package ?Hmisc?
* removing ?/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/Hmisc?
* installing *source* package ?quadprog? ...
** libs
*** arch - i386
sh: make: command not found
ERROR: compilation failed for package ?quadprog?
* removing ?/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/quadprog?
ERROR: dependency ?Hmisc? is not available for package ?its?
* removing ?/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/its?
ERROR: dependency ?quadprog? is not available for package ?tseries?
* removing ?/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/tseries?

The downloaded source packages are in

?/private/var/folders/c7/jrjv78_x6f53l3sw_w715gk00000gn/T/RtmpS4sYUx/downloaded_packages?

I look forward to your help, plsease

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David Winsemius

2013-02-22 21:26:11 UTC

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The system is reporting that it cannot find `make`. It appears that you have not installed XCode on you Mac, or that you did with an earlier version for which you have not updated, or something else which has broken your installation. Please read the MacOS FAQ. (And post further such question on the SIG-Mac mailing list.)

Post by londonphd
Hi, I have not been able to use R in my macbook pro. I am getting the
following error message every time i try to install a package
* installing *source* package ?Hmisc? ...
** package ?Hmisc? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
*** arch - i386
sh: make: command not found
ERROR: compilation failed for package ?Hmisc?
* removing ?/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/Hmisc?
* installing *source* package ?quadprog? ...
** libs
*** arch - i386
sh: make: command not found
ERROR: compilation failed for package ?quadprog?
* removing ?/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/quadprog?
ERROR: dependency ?Hmisc? is not available for package ?its?
* removing ?/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/its?
ERROR: dependency ?quadprog? is not available for package ?tseries?
* removing ?/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/tseries?
The downloaded source packages are in
?/private/var/folders/c7/jrjv78_x6f53l3sw_w715gk00000gn/T/RtmpS4sYUx/downloaded_packages?
I look forward to your help, plsease
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Prof Brian Ripley

2013-02-22 21:46:29 UTC

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Post by David Winsemius
The system is reporting that it cannot find `make`. It appears that you have not installed XCode on you Mac, or that you did with an earlier version for which you have not updated, or something else which has broken your installation. Please read the MacOS FAQ. (And post further such question on the SIG-Mac mailing list.)

For the record, such information is in the 'R Installation and
Administration Manual', as from R-patched (and hence R 2.15.3 and R
3.0.0). See e.g.
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Mac-OS-X .

On recent versions of OS X it is not Xcode you need, but the 'Xcode
command-line tools'. These can be installed from inside Xcode
(Preferences->Downloads->Components) or separately.

For Hmisc you will need a matching Fortran compiler: see that manual.

Post by David Winsemius

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Marc Schwartz

2013-02-22 22:11:35 UTC

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For the record, such information is in the 'R Installation and Administration Manual', as from R-patched (and hence R 2.15.3 and R 3.0.0). See e.g. http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Mac-OS-X .
On recent versions of OS X it is not Xcode you need, but the 'Xcode command-line tools'. These can be installed from inside Xcode (Preferences->Downloads->Components) or separately.
For Hmisc you will need a matching Fortran compiler: see that manual.

It seems reasonable to ask however, why he is installing source CRAN packages on OSX when the default OSX install would be binaries, if he installed R by using Simon's OSX binary.

If he installed R from source, he should have already had the requisite compiler related tools installed.

Perhaps I need more coffee late on a Friday, but something seems inconsistent here.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz

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londonphd

2013-02-22 23:48:15 UTC

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Many thanks to all who replied to this post. the problem has now been sorted
out. i installed "GCC-10.7-v2.pkg", now i can install packages from source

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