[R] installing R on Mac OS X

[Sean Davis]

Silvia

Are you talking of specific packages?  Installing R from the Disk Image 
does not preclude building individual packages from source.  As for 
your original error, I'm not sure what the problem is, but you are 
probably correct in assuming it may be a setup problem, but I can't 
tell for sure.

Sean

On Feb 1, 2005, at 3:04 AM, silvia simoni wrote:

> The thing is i do need the source code because i need some packages 
> which are not available as binanary code for mac and whern i try to 
> install them, they look for a file .o that is not there.
>
> silvia
>
> Il giorno 31/gen/05, alle 20:11, Sean Davis ha scritto:
>
>> Silvia
>>
>> You may want to use the disk image instead.  It is here (for 
>> italy....):
>>
>> http://microarrays.unife.it/CRAN/bin/macosx/R-2.0.1.dmg
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:52 PM, silvia simoni wrote:
>>
>>> I have a problem in installing R-2.0.1, downloaded from the R web 
>>> site, on mac o sx version 10.3.7.
>>> when i launch the command ./configure i get the following error 
>>> message:
>>>
>>>  checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: 
>>> error: C compiler cannot create executables
>>>
>>> i've aleady insalled Xcode. the version of the gcc in 3.3.
>>> what can i do?
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> silvia
>>>
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