[Rd] packages in OS X

Jan de Leeuw deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu
Sat, 6 Apr 2002 11:28:08 -0800


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Simple CRAN packages which do not compile without modifications (all 
others do)
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     -- akima
/usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _idlc_

     -- fracdiff
/usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _gammfd_
(and others)

     -- odesolve

     -- princurve
    lamix:
Error on line 116: Declaration error for v: adjustable dimension on 
non-argument

    -- splancs
/usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _bounds_

     -- wle
  mleaic:
Error on line 229: Declaration error for work: adjustable dimension on 
non-argument

   -- subselect
configure: error: R was configured without a FORTRAN compiler
ERROR: configuration failed for package `subselect'

The multiple defined symbols are a well known OS X problem. There are ad 
hoc fixes
using linker flags, but the best way to fix this is to use extern in the 
source code (although
almost all these packages use f2c to translate the fortran into c). The 
"adjustable dimension"
error is possibly an f2c problem. Ans subselect does not recognize f2c 
as a fortran
compiler.
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Complicated/interface  packages which compile (almost) out-of-the-box
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RPgSQL
RmSQL
RMySQL
gtk
RGtk (although we need to add a typedef for ulong to gtkAccessors.c)
RSPerl
XML (this gives a multiple defined symbol for xmlParserError, which is
defined in Utils.c but also in libxml.dylib -- I commented out the 
routine
in Utils.c, but this may be a bit heavy handed).
Rpy
rpvm
RObjectTables
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CRAN packages I have not tried yet (because I don't have/use the things 
they interface to)
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RODBC
ROracle
RQuantlib
RSQLite
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CRAN packages which compile and install, but do not work

 > library("Matrix")
Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
         unable to load shared library 
"/sw/lib/R/library/Matrix/libs/Matrix.so":
   dlcompat: dyld: /sw/lib/R/bin/R.bin Undefined symbols:
_ATL_cGetNB
_ATL_dGetNB
_ATL_sGetNB
_ATL_zGetNB
_cblas_dgemm
_cblas_dscal
_cblas_dswap
_cblas_dsyrk
_cblas_dtrsm
_cblas_idamax
_dsymv_
Error in library("Matrix") : .First.lib failed

If I use nm on Matrix.so, all these symbols are undefined.

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