[R] Building binary package fails because of missing dependent package

[Uwe Ligges]

Hans-Peter Suter wrote:
> On an (Intel Leopard) Mac I try to build a package (mxFinance) which
> depends on another package (mxGraphics). The dependendy is 1) a
> 'Depends:' in DESCRIPTION and 2) an import in NAMESPACE.
> 
> - The build fails if the dependent package (mxGraphics) is not
> installed in the R.framework
> 
> Do I need to have installed all packages which are required by
> packages to be built binary (source builds are ok)?


You *may* have to install them depending on the strength of the 
dependency - such as in the case you reported below.

Uwe Ligges


> Cheers,
> Hans-Peter
> 
> 
> -----------------------
> Macintosh:mxFinance chappi$ R CMD BUILD --binary mxFinance
> * checking for file 'mxFinance/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'mxFinance':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * cleaning src
> * removing junk files
> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
> * building binary distribution
> * Installing *source* package 'mxFinance' ...
> ** libs
> ** arch - i386
> gcc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
> -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -std=gnu99
> -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include
> -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include/i386  -msse3
> -fPIC  -g -O2 -march=nocona -c init.c -o init.o
> gcc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
> -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -std=gnu99 -dynamiclib
> -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -undefined
> dynamic_lookup -single_module -multiply_defined suppress
> -L/usr/local/lib -o mxFinance.so init.o
> -F/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/.. -framework R -Wl,-framework
> -Wl,CoreFoundation
> ld: warning, duplicate dylib
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
> ** arch - ppc
> gcc -arch ppc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
> -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -std=gnu99
> -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include
> -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include/ppc
> -I/usr/local/include    -fPIC  -g -O2 -c init.c -o init.o
> gcc -arch ppc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
> -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -std=gnu99 -dynamiclib
> -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -undefined
> dynamic_lookup -single_module -multiply_defined suppress
> -L/usr/local/lib -o mxFinance.so init.o
> -F/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/.. -framework R -Wl,-framework
> -Wl,CoreFoundation
> ld: warning, duplicate dylib
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
> ** R
> ** data
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Loading required package: mxGraphics
> Warning in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE,
> lib.loc = lib.loc) :
>   there is no package called 'mxGraphics'
> Error: package 'mxGraphics' could not be loaded
> Execution halted
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'mxFinance'
> ** Removing '/var/folders/xr/xr01D7JAEtGe4S5uaDQSg++++TI/-Tmp-/Rinst881133514/mxFinance'
>  ERROR
> * installation failed
> 
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