[R] Installing rJava from source on Mac

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is not an appropriate topic for R-help (see the posting guide), and 
it is what R-sig-mac is there for.

'on Mac' is not specific enough: they will need to know your exact OS.

But it looks like a path problem.  Those tools are part of Xcode, and 
tools in its path is not being found *when the package installation is 
being run*.  And as the comment inline below shows, you didn't tell us 
how you did this.

BTW, your R is very old, and the posting guide asked you to update 
before posting.  I don't think that would solve the immediate problem 
here, but it might avoid subsequent ones.


On 24/11/2011 09:34, christiaan pauw wrote:
> Hi Everybody
>
>
> I am trying to install the latest version of JavaGD from source but get the
> following error.
>

You omitted what you did here.

> trying URL 'http://cran.za.r-project.org/src/contrib/JavaGD_0.5-4.tar.gz'
>
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 102242 bytes (99 Kb)
>
> opened URL
>
> ==================================================
>
> downloaded 99 Kb
>
>
> * installing *source* package ‘JavaGD’ ...
>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/config: line 143: make:
> command not found
>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/config: line 144: make:
> command not found
>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/config: line 220: make:
> command not found
>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/config: line 143: make:
> command not found
>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/config: line 144: make:
> command not found
>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/config: line 220: make:
> command not found
>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/config: line 143: make:
> command not found
>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/config: line 144: make:
> command not found
>
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/config: line 220: make:
> command not found
>
> 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 ‘JavaGD’
>
>
> line 143, 144 and 220  reads as follows:
>
> 143: LIBR=`eval $query VAR=LIBR`
>
> 144: STATIC_LIBR=`eval $query VAR=STATIC_LIBR`
>
>
> 220: eval "${query} VAR=${var}"
>
>
> I do have gcc installed:
> (from terminal)
> $ which gcc
> /Developer/usr/bin/gcc
>
> Can anyone guide me on how to resolve this. sessionInfo below
>
> thanks in advance
> Christiaan
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>
> 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
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.11.1
> Warning messages:
>
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>
>
>
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