[Rd] help with revdepcheck

[William R Revelle]

Dear fellow developers.

I am trying to submit the latest version of psych and need to check the 294 reverse dependencies.  Normally,  I just run revdep_check() to do this.

But today I am being told I do not have the necessary tools to compile C


Here is  the error message:

fn <- "/Users/WR/Dropbox/Software/psych/"
> revdep_check(fn,num_workers=8)
── CHECK ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 294 packages ──
[0/294] 00:00:05 | ETA:  ?s | (8) agriutilities [I], AID [I], ANOPA [I], apa7 [I], aplms [...Error: Could not find tools necessary to compile a package
Call `pkgbuild::check_build_tools(debug = TRUE)` to diagnose the problem.
> pkgbuild::check_build_tools(debug = TRUE)
Trying to compile a simple C file
Error: Could not find tools necessary to compile a package
Call `pkgbuild::check_build_tools(debug = TRUE)` to diagnose the problem.
rror: Could not find tools necessary to compile a package

R version 4.5.2 (2025-10-31)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS Sequoia 15.7.3


Any help to fix this would be appreciated.

I am trying to meet the Dec 22 deadline for submission to CRAN.

Bill



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