[R] Rmpi fails to install

[Bert Gunter]

I cannot specifically help, but you may wish to post this on the r-sig-mac
list where there may be the expertise you need.

Cheers,
Bert



Bert Gunter

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Yufei Zhao <yzhao17 using uoregon.edu> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I try to install Rmpi with install.packages(“Rmpi”), but it fails:
>
> > install.packages("Rmpi")
> Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation
> of C/C++/Fortran: ‘Rmpi’
> Do you want to attempt to install these from sources? (Yes/no/cancel) yes
> installing the source package ‘Rmpi’
>
> trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/Rmpi_0.6-7.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 106869 bytes (104 KB)
> ==================================================
> downloaded 104 KB
>
> * installing *source* package ‘Rmpi’ ...
> ** package ‘Rmpi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> checking for gcc... clang
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether clang accepts -g... yes
> checking for clang option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking for pkg-config... no
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... clang -E
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
> checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory
> rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory
> yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking mpi.h usability... no
> checking mpi.h presence... no
> checking for mpi.h... no
> configure: error: "Cannot find mpi.h header file"
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘Rmpi’
> * removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/
> Resources/library/Rmpi’
> Warning in install.packages :
>   installation of package ‘Rmpi’ had non-zero exit status
>
> The downloaded source packages are in
>         ‘/private/var/folders/wd/5x8p9n_j1kx7sqqv2hk23vvm0000gs/T/
> RtmpKZ1waO/downloaded_packages’
>
>
> The systems is MacOS High Sierra 10.13.3.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Best,
> Yufei
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