[R] R on mac not installing packages

[David Winsemius]

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On Feb 22, 2013, at 12:15 PM, londonphd wrote:

> 
> Hi, I have not been able to use R in my macbook pro. I am getting the
> following error message every time i try to install a package
> 
> * installing *source* package ‘Hmisc’ ...
> ** package ‘Hmisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> ** libs
> *** arch - i386
> sh: make: command not found
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Hmisc’
> * removing ‘/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/Hmisc’
> * installing *source* package ‘quadprog’ ...
> ** libs
> *** arch - i386
> sh: make: command not found
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘quadprog’
> * removing ‘/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/quadprog’
> ERROR: dependency ‘Hmisc’ is not available for package ‘its’
> * removing ‘/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/its’
> ERROR: dependency ‘quadprog’ is not available for package ‘tseries’
> * removing ‘/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/tseries’
> 
> The downloaded source packages are in
> 
> ‘/private/var/folders/c7/jrjv78_x6f53l3sw_w715gk00000gn/T/RtmpS4sYUx/downloaded_packages’
> 
> 
> I look forward to your help, plsease
> 
> 
> 
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David Winsemius
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