[R] mac os X: mprobit fails to install

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Sun Nov 22 21:44:20 CET 2009


There were quite a few "implicit declaration" warning messages when I  
followed Phil's advice, but I do seem to get a complete build on a Mac  
10.5.8 running 64 bit R 2.10.0.

Have you installed the Xcode package? The gcc-4.2?

-- 
David.
On Nov 22, 2009, at 3:15 PM, SL wrote:

> I have tried your command but without success. Any idea? Here is my  
> log:
>
> Macbook:$ PKG_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/sys R CMD INSTALL  
> mprobit_0.9-2.tar.gz
>
> * Installing to library ‘/Users/stephaneluchini/Library/R/2.9/library’
> * Installing *source* package ‘mprobit’ ...
> ** libs
> ** arch - i386
> sh: make: command not found
> ERREUR : compilation failed pour le package ‘mprobit’
> * Removing ‘/Users/stephaneluchini/Library/R/2.9/library/mprobit’
>
> 2009/11/22 Phil Spector <spector at stat.berkeley.edu>:
>> Stephane -
>>    The check log indicated that malloc.h couldn't be found.
>> Since that header file  is located  in /usr/include/sys on Macs,
>> you could do the following:
>>
>> 1.  Download mprobit_0.9-2.tar.gz from your local CRAN mirror.
>> 2.  At a terminal, type
>>
>>      PKG_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/sys R CMD INSTALL mprobit_0.9-2.tar.gz
>>
>> They'll be some warning messages, but the package should get built.
>>
>>                                        - Phil Spector
>>                                         Statistical Computing  
>> Facility
>>                                         Department of Statistics
>>                                         UC Berkeley
>>                                         spector at stat.berkeley.edu
>>
>> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, stephane Luchini wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> any chance that someone got through the installation problem of
>>> mprobit on mac os X?
>>>
>>> Stephane
>>>
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>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT




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