[R] Can't compile rtiff for OSX

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 5 Jun 2011, Robert Baruch wrote:

> I have libtiff installed from macports, and it is sitting there in 
> /opt/local/lib:

Well, you haven't told us which build of R you used, but it looks like 
it is not the one from MacPorts (maybe the one from CRAN?). 
/opt/local is not a standard location on Mac OS X (nor any other 
Unix-alike that I have access to).

Please see the posting guide: this is a not a suitable question for 
R-help, and you are asked to post question about Mac OS X on 
r-sig-mac.   The answer involves

'discussion unintelligible to non-programmers'

to quote the posting guide.  The version of tiff which matches the 
CRAN build of R is at http://r.research.att.com/libs/ -- it works for 
me.

>
> $ ls -l /opt/local/lib/*tiff*
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin  796684 Jun  4 22:13 /opt/local/lib/libtiff.3.dylib
> -rw-r--r--  2 root  admin  990296 Jun  4 22:13 /opt/local/lib/libtiff.a
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin      15 Jun  4 22:14 /opt/local/lib/libtiff.dylib -> libtiff.3.dylib
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin     960 Jun  4 22:13 /opt/local/lib/libtiff.la
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin   35400 Jun  4 22:13 /opt/local/lib/libtiffxx.3.dylib
> -rw-r--r--  2 root  admin   17280 Jun  4 22:13 /opt/local/lib/libtiffxx.a
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin      17 Jun  4 22:14 /opt/local/lib/libtiffxx.dylib -> libtiffxx.3.dylib
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin     998 Jun  4 22:13 /opt/local/lib/libtiffxx.la
>
> $ ls -l /opt/local/include/*tiff*
> -rw-r--r--  2 root  admin  33813 Jun  4 22:13 /opt/local/include/tiff.h
> -rw-r--r--  2 root  admin   3020 Jun  4 22:13 /opt/local/include/tiffconf.h
> -rw-r--r--  2 root  admin  20514 Jun  4 22:13 /opt/local/include/tiffio.h
> -rw-r--r--  2 root  admin   1706 Jun  4 22:13 /opt/local/include/tiffio.hxx
> -rw-r--r--  2 root  admin    410 Jun  4 22:13 /opt/local/include/tiffvers.h
>
> However, when I try to install rtiff, R is not picking up libtiff:
>
> $ R CMD INSTALL ~/Downloads/rtiff_1.4.1.tar.gz
> * installing to library ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library’
> * installing *source* package ‘rtiff’ ...
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking for TIFFOpen in -ltiff... no
> Error: Could not find libtiff.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rtiff’
> * removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/rtiff’
>
> TIFFOpen is in libtiff:
>
> $ nm /opt/local/lib/libtiff.dylib | grep TIFFOpen
> 0000000000030740 T _TIFFOpen
>
> So I think the conclusion is that R isn't even looking in /opt/local/lib. Seems like a basic question, but how do I get R to look in /opt/local/{lib|include}?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> --Rob
>
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