[R] lme4 + R 2.11.0 + mac unavailable

[Uwe Ligges]

On 29.10.2011 18:33, ADosmann wrote:
> I had a similar problem installing lme4 on my mac in R 2.12.1.  The
> information on this thread helped me troubleshoot the problem, but I arrived
> at a different solution.
>
> When I tried to load lme4 from the source as advised by one author, it
> failed and I got an error message regarding the package 'Matrix' (see below
> if you're interested).  Before diving in on some of the other suggestions to
> deal with the Matrix issue, I simply got the 'Matrix' package I already had
> installed going, and then installed lme4 successfully.
>
>> library(Matrix)
>> install.packages("lme4")
>
> That did the trick.


Yes, but given the output below, it looks like make is not available.

Uwe Ligges


> Andy
>
> * installing *source* package ‘Matrix’ ...
> ** libs
> *** arch - i386
> sh: make: command not found
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Matrix’
> * removing ‘/Users/darwin/Library/R/2.12/library/Matrix’
> * installing *source* package ‘lme4’ ...
> ** libs
> *** arch - i386
> sh: make: command not found
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lme4’
> * removing ‘/Users/darwin/Library/R/2.12/library/lme4’
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>
> ‘/private/var/folders/Ts/TsMLZGaEF3W3JOTfdmIGD++++TU/-Tmp-/RtmpAXhRpJ/downloaded_packages’
> Warning messages:
> 1: In install.packages("lme4", type = "source") :
>    installation of package 'Matrix' had non-zero exit status
> 2: In install.packages("lme4", type = "source") :
>    installation of package 'lme4' had non-zero exit status
>
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