[R] Problem installing Hmisc (more info)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Michael Kubovy wrote:

> Frank Harrell suggested I re-post with information about the version of
> R

Thanks, that starts to make sense.  You appear to have g77 installed, but 
not in the place the person who prepared the binary install of R has it.
Where do you have it installed?  ('whereis g77' or 'which g77' should tell 
you.)  Then you need to alter FLIBS in R_HOME/etc/Makeconf to point to 
it.  (You can remove -lfrtbegin from FLIBS: it is not needed: your R_HOME 
looks to be /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.0.1.)

However, I believe there is a more fundamental problem: because libg2c is 
a static library on current MacOS X, most packages using Fortran cannot be 
compiled there.  That's presumably the case with Hmisc, as the automated 
package builder is not providing a binary build.  (There is supposedly a 
check directory on CRAN, but it is not there at present.)


>
> Heres's the information:
>>>  version
>>          _
>> platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.8
>> arch     powerpc
>> os       darwin6.8
>> system   powerpc, darwin6.8
>> status
>> major    2
>> minor    0.1
>> year     2004
>> month    11
>> day      15
>> language R
>
> Here's what happens when I try to install:
>>>  install.packages("Hmisc")
>> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
>> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 47565 bytes
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 46Kb
>>
>> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Hmisc_3.0-1.tar.gz'
>> Content type `application/x-tar' length 453567 bytes
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 442Kb
>>
>> Delete downloaded files (y/N)?
>>
>> The packages are in /tmp/Rtmp1911/Rinstdirfc4111
>> Warning message:
>> Installation of package Hmisc had non-zero exit status in:
>> install.packages("Hmisc")
>
> Here's what the Console had to say:
>> * Installing *source* package 'Hmisc' ...
>> ** libs
>> g77   -fno-common  -g -O2 -c cidxcn.f -o cidxcn.o
>> g77   -fno-common  -g -O2 -c cidxcp.f -o cidxcp.o
>> g77   -fno-common  -g -O2 -c hoeffd.f -o hoeffd.o
>> g77   -fno-common  -g -O2 -c jacklins.f -o jacklins.o
>> g77   -fno-common  -g -O2 -c largrec.f -o largrec.o
>> gcc -no-cpp-precomp
>> -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include
>> -I/usr/local/include   -fno-common  -g -O2 -c ranksort.c -o ranksort.o
>> g77   -fno-common  -g -O2 -c rcorr.f -o rcorr.o
>> g77   -fno-common  -g -O2 -c wclosest.f -o wclosest.o
>> gcc -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -L/usr/local/lib -o
>> Hmisc.so cidxcn.o cidxcp.o hoeffd.o jacklins.o largrec.o ranksort.o
>> rcorr.o wclosest.o  -L/usr/local/lib
>> -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/3.4.2
>> -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/3.4.2/../../.. -lfrtbegin
>> -lg2c -lSystem -lcc_dynamic -framework R
>> ld: warning -L: directory name
>> (/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/3.4.2) does not exist
>> ld: warning -L: directory name
>> (/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/3.4.2/../../..) does not
>> exist
>> ld: can't locate file for: -lfrtbegin
>> make: *** [Hmisc.so] Error 1
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Hmisc'
>> ** Removing
>> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.0.1/Resources/library/
>> Hmisc'
>> ** Restoring previous
>> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.0.1/Resources/library/
>> Hmisc'
>
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