[R] Building R on Mac OS X-"dumping methods" problem

[Jan de Leeuw]

It's something local. One thing that comes to mind is: did he unpack
the R-1.6.0 archive with Stuffit Expander ? Older versions truncate long
filenames. Always use tar or pax.

nm methods.so | grep R_initialize

should tell Tom if the symbol is there

On Saturday, October 19, 2002, at 02:50 AM, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Tom Kennedy <tom.kennedy at bigpond.com> writes:
>
>> I have also had the same problem in trying to get R to build on MacOS  
>> X.
>>
>> dumping R code in package 'methods'
>> Error in .Call("R_initialize_methods_metadata", table, PACKAGE =
>> "methods") :
>>          .Call function name not in load table
>> Execution halted
>
> Hmm. Now I don't know OSX, but this points quite squarely at a dynamic
> library loading failure. Does this affect other .Call() instances? Is
> it possible that you're picking up another version of methods.so (or
> whatever the extension is)?
>
> Are there "ldd" and "nm" command in MOSX? If so, what do they tell you
> about the dyn.lib.? Is there an R_initialize_methods_metadata in it?
>
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