[R] Problem loading quantreg

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Actually, you are trying to *install* it

- on a Mac (without telling us)
- from source (why? people usually install binary packages there)
- asking on the wrong list (R-sig-mac is appropriate)
- with an incomplete R installation.  Go to the CRAN Mac OS X pages 
and read what they say about installing Tcl/Tk and gfortran.

And follow-ups to R-sig-mac please.

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, derekverley wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to load the quantreg package but keep running into problems no
> matter which method I have tried.  Does anybody know what this error (below)
> means in plain language and what I might do to get this installed.  I have
> not had problems downloading/installing/running packages in the past.
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> derek
>
> Begin R output:
>
> trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/quantreg_4.65.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-tar' length 2366176 bytes (2.3 Mb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 2.3 Mb
>
> * installing *source* package ‘quantreg’ ...
> ** libs
> *** arch - i386
> gfortran -arch i386   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c akj.f -o akj.o
> make: gfortran: No such file or directory
> make: *** [akj.o] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘quantreg’
> * removing
> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.12/Resources/library/quantreg’
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>
> ‘/private/var/folders/4m/4mHSx7JtHL88Cl-gi19+Zk+++TI/-Tmp-/RtmpApfBjX/downloaded_packages’
>
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