[R] installing package hier.part on Mac OSX

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Jari Oksanen wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 08:01 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> For MacOS we have
>>
>> Binary packages, foo.tgz
>> Source packages, foo.tar.gz
>>
>> Neither are `zip files' (things created by zip, usually with extension .zip).
>>
>> It looks like you have not installed a source package before, and you
>> either do not have the development tools installed or they are not in your
>> path.
>
> In this case probably the tools are missing, starting from 'make'. You
> should install the Development Tools / X-Code which come with the MacOS
> X installation cd/dvd at least from version 10.3.x. Otherwise you can
> get the development tools from http://developer.apple.com/. Moreover,
> in this case you need to get a Fortran compiler which does not come with
> MacOS. See R for Mac OS X FAQ, section "the Fortran compiler g77 gcc
> 3.3".
>
>>
>> That there is no binary version of a package available usually indicates a
>> problem with it on MacOS X, at least on the autobuilder's version of
>> MacOS.
>>
> Well, 'hier.part' is younger than the latest entry in Mac binary
> packages: there is nothing after Jan 19, 2005. The binary package builds

As hier.part's tarball is dated 3 November 2004, this is obviously false
(and I had checked).

> beautifully in MacOS X. However, it seems to require package 'gtools'
> that I can't find in CRAN nor in BioConductor repositories. It seems
> that this didn't prevent passing tests to be included at CRAN or
> producing Windows binaries.
>
> Theresa, I can send you a Mac binary if you don't want to see the
> trouble of installing X-Code and g77. However, it failed with missing
> 'gtools' upon loading.

gtools is part of gregmisc, so you should have been able to find it.

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