[R] Installation of bigmemory fails

[Jay Emerson]

Premal,

Package authors generally welcome direct emails.

We've been away from this project since the release of 2.13.0 and I only just
noticed the build errors.  These generally occur because of some (usually
small and solvable) problem with compilers and the BOOST libraries.  We'll
look at it and see what we can do.  Please email us if you don't hear back
in the next week or so.

Thanks,

Jay


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Hello All,
I tried to intall the bigmemory package from a CRAN mirror site and
received the following output while installing. Any idea what's going
on and how to fix it? The system details are provided below.

--------------------- begin error messages -----------------------
* installing *source* package 'bigmemory' ...
 checking for Sun Studio compiler...no
 checking for Darwin...yes
** libs
g++45 -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I../inst/include     -fpic  -O2
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc45 -c B\
igMatrix.cpp -o BigMatrix.o
g++45 -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I../inst/include     -fpic  -O2
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc45 -c S\
haredCounter.cpp -o SharedCounter.o
g++45 -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I../inst/include     -fpic  -O2
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc45 -c b\
igmemory.cpp -o bigmemory.o
bigmemory.cpp: In function 'bool TooManyRIndices(index_type)':
bigmemory.cpp:40:27: error: 'powl' was not declared in this scope
*** Error code 1

Stop in /tmp/Rtmpxwe3p4/R.INSTALL4f539336/bigmemory/src.
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'bigmemory'
* removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/bigmemory'

The downloaded packages are in
       '/tmp/RtmpMZCOVp/downloaded_packages'
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Making packages.html  ... done
Warning message:
In install.packages("bigmemory") :
 installation of package 'bigmemory' had non-zero exit status
--------------------- end error messages -------------------------
It's a 64-bit FreeBSD 7.2 system running R version 2-13.0.
Thanks,
Premal

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John W. Emerson (Jay)
Associate Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics
Yale University
http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay