[R] Help with "error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH"

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Hmmmm....strange....if possible, this might be solvable by simply
updating to the release version R 2.14. If it's at all possible, I'd
start there.

Can you find the object it's unhappy about? On my machine, I do the following

1) Open Finder
2) Macintosh HD -> Library -> Frameworks -> R.framework -> Versions ->
2.13 -> Resources -> library -> RCurl -> libs -> x86_64 -> RCurl.so

Going the other way, are you sure you have Curl on your system? I'm
pretty sure it's standard on all Macs but you never know...follow some
of the instructions given here: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/FAQ.html
 You should be able to type curl-config in the terminal and get a
meaningful response if it is.

Did you change something on the OS level recently? I don't really know
why this would have all fallen apart, I just re-reinstalled RCurl on R
2.13.2 OSX 10.5.8 with no problem at all.

Michael

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Hari Easwaran <hariharan.pe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> Thanks for your response. Using the binary seems to solve partially. I am
> able to install (I think!) RCurl but not able to load the library. Below is
> the info you required and the error while loading RCurl.
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.2 (2011-09-30)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> install.packages("RCurl")
> trying URL
> 'http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.13/RCurl_1.7-0.tgz'
> Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 680511 bytes (664 Kb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 664 Kb
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> /var/folders/a6/a60JdPfrHC0ZAizZWyNM-E+++TI/-Tmp-//RtmpYE7JLJ/downloaded_packages
>> library(RCurl)
> Loading required package: bitops
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>   unable to load shared object
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl/libs/x86_64/RCurl.so':
>
> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl/libs/x86_64/RCurl.so,
> 6): Library not loaded:
> @rpath/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/lib/libR.dylib
>   Referenced from:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl/libs/x86_64/RCurl.so
>   Reason: image not found
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'RCurl'
> Warning: dependency ‘Rcompression’ is not available
> also installing the dependency ‘XML’
> Seems like now I need 'Rcompression'. I googled this and found a
> Rcompression package 'zlib' (http://www.omegahat.org/Rcompression/). However
> the site says that "zlib for Mac OS X: zlib is already included as part of
> Mac OS X".
> I am wondering what to do? To my bliss, why did the previous R version
> oblivious of these issues!
> Really appreciate any hep.
> SIncerely,
> Hari
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:33 PM, R. Michael Weylandt
> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, you probably need some sort of C compiler, but why can't you just
>> download the appropriate binary directly? I just did on OS X 10.5.8
>> (admittedly for R 2.13.2, not 2.14) with no problems. The output of
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>> install.packages("RCurl")
>>
>> if you don't mind please.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Hari Easwaran <hariharan.pe at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> > I am trying to install a package from bioconductor (biomaRt) for which I
>> > need the RCurl package. I get the following main error message when I
>> > try
>> > to install RCurl (and its dependencies).
>> >
>> > configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
>> > See `config.log' for more details.
>> > ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
>> >
>> > I searched for possible solutions and read in some online mailing list
>> > that
>> > I might have to install Xcode to install the gcc compiler. I am not sure
>> > if
>> > I should do this because I have installed RCurl in previous versions of
>> > R
>> > without any problems (on this same computer). I upgraded to the latest R
>> > (R
>> > version 2.14.0) and faced this problem. So I downgraded to R version
>> > 2.13.2
>> > and still cannot install RCurl. I think my last successful installation
>> > of
>> > RCurl was with R version 2.11.
>> >
>> > Following is the complete error message and my R version details.
>> > I really appreciate any help or suggestions.
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Hari
>> >
>> > trying URL '
>> > http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/src/contrib/XML_3.4-3.tar.gz'
>> > Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 906364 bytes (885 Kb)
>> > opened URL
>> > ==================================================
>> > downloaded 885 Kb
>> >
>> > trying URL '
>> > http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/src/contrib/RCurl_1.7-0.tar.gz'
>> > Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 813252 bytes (794 Kb)
>> > opened URL
>> > ==================================================
>> > downloaded 794 Kb
>> >
>> > * installing *source* package ‘XML’ ...
>> > checking for gcc... no
>> > checking for cc... no
>> > checking for cl.exe... no
>> > configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
>> > See `config.log' for more details.
>> > ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘XML’
>> > * removing
>> > ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/XML’
>> > * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ...
>> > checking for curl-config... /usr/bin/curl-config
>> > checking for gcc... no
>> > checking for cc... no
>> > checking for cc... no
>> > checking for cl... no
>> > configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
>> > See `config.log' for more details.
>> > ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
>> > * removing
>> > ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl’
>> > * restoring previous
>> > ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl’
>> >
>> > The downloaded packages are in
>> >
>> > ‘/private/var/folders/a6/a60JdPfrHC0ZAizZWyNM-E+++TI/-Tmp-/RtmpVjBcvX/downloaded_packages’
>> >
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