[R-pkg-devel] Compiling packages from source on Mac OS X that require "-f openmp" - A solution

[Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal]

Hi All:

I wasn't quite certain the appropriate list for this,  but hopefully this will be found as needed. I know I have seen for several packages where building from source has failed on the Mac because of an error from using "-f openmp" in the compile options,  because the clang on the Mac didn't have openmp.

Now there is an R compatible version of clang with  openmp,  see:

http://thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/openmp-in-r-on-os-x/#after-3-4-0

I just ran into this in trying to compile the latest version of the package "bssm".  Installing that version of clang solved the compilation errors.

-Roy

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