[R] help with installing R packages on Mac : these packages are downloaded but not compiled

[Bogdan Tanasa]

Thank you Jeff.

Well, the same messages I do receive not only I do install "tidyverse" but
also any other packages from BioConductor ;

specifically, the packages are downloaded but not compiled and not
installed.

I believe that it is a more global R issue with Mac Monterey, although I do
not know how to solve it. Thanks,

Bogdan



On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 6:42 PM Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:

> Tidyverse has dozens of dependencies... and when a dependency fails to
> install then you often need to install it explicitly... the automatic
> dependency algorithm doesn't seem to work robustly.
>
> Carefully read your error messages... it looks like you should start by
> installing backports.
>
> On March 23, 2022 5:52:29 PM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >Mac specific issues generally belong on the R-sig-mac list, not here(I
> >of course don't know whether this is Mac specific or not. Folks on the
> >Mac list presumably would).
> >
> >
> >Bert Gunter
> >
> >"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
> >and sticking things into it."
> >-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
> >
> >On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 5:41 PM Bogdan Tanasa <tanasa using gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I would appreciate to have your prompt help please on the following
> issue :
> >>
> >> I am the process of installing R and R packages on MacOS Monterrey.
> >>
> >> The packages are downloaded but not compiled and are not installed, as
> >> shown below.
> >>
> >>  I would appreciate any help that you can offer please. Thank you.
> >>
> >> > install.packages("tidyverse", dependencies=T)
> >> Installing package into
> >> ‘/Users/btanasa/Library/R/x86_64/4.1/library’(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> >> trying URL '
> https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/contrib/4.1/tidyverse_1.3.1.tgz'
> >> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 421072 bytes (411
> >> KB)==================================================
> >> downloaded 411 KB
> >>
> >>
> >> The downloaded binary packages are in
> >>
>  /var/folders/j1/vfxkcdz51l945jpfb2vplcsw47dvp9/T//RtmpYudPdW/downloaded_packages>
> >> > > library("tidyverse")
> >> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’:
> >>  .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'broom', details:
> >>   call: loadNamespace(x)
> >>   error: there is no package called ‘backports’
> >>
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> >>
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