[R] Installing contributed packages on MacOS X: Solved!

[Kaspar Pflugshaupt]

On 4.2.2002 15:43 Uhr, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

> KernSmooth does not have any paths `hard-wired'.  But pre-compiled packages
> do inherit from the R they were built under, in this case the location of
> BLAS_LIBS in etc/Makeconf.  So looks like the problem is with whoever built
> the packages: definitely not `in the packages themselves'.

I guess I have not made myself clear:

The packages I had problems with were indeed _source_ packages, downloaded
from CRAN with update.packages(). The compile process failed, but succeeded
after setting the environmental variables as posted by J. Whitaker.

After some additional (less cursory) reading of the R-exts manual, I checked
out the etc/Makeconf file in my R installation and promptly found

LIBPATHS =  -L/usr/local/lib

There ought to be a -L/sw/lib here, I think. Thus, it's my R installation
(i.e. the fink r-base package) that's to blame. I'll be working it out with
J. Whitaker.

Cheers

Kaspar Pflugshaupt



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