[R-sig-hpc] Help installing sprng libraries

[Stefan Theussl]

David Marra wrote:
> Hi Stefan/Everyone,
>
> Thank you for the suggestion. I am getting the following message now:
>
> Warning message:
> package ‘rsprng’ is not available
Yes, I see. I'm not a Mac OS X expert, I only use it from time to time 
within my R-Forge work.

Anyway, there are two more things I forgot:

1) You need of course the right sprng library for your architecture. As 
far as I understood you'd like to run code on 64 bit R, then you need of 
course to get the 64 bit sprng from Na Li's website (this was not the 
case as far as I see from your initial mail).

2) Mac OS X has a binary package repository (the default) where rsprng 
is obviously not available.
That means you have to install rsprng via

install.packages("rsprng", configure.args="LD_FLAGS=\"-lgmp\" 
--with-sprng=/pathto/lib/sprng", type="source")

the latter argument indicates that you want to access the source part of 
CRAN (the package tarballs).

This works for me (at least when using 32 bit R and sprng on Leopard) 
but introduces a new problem:

 > install.packages("rsprng", configure.args="LD_FLAGS=\"-lgmp\" 
--with-sprng=/Users/theussl/lib/sprng", type="source")
trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/rsprng_0.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 36435 bytes (35 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 35 Kb

* Installing *source* package 'rsprng' ...
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
Try to find sprng.h ...
Found in /Users/theussl/lib/sprng/include
Try to find libsprng.a ...
Found in /Users/theussl/lib/sprng/lib
Try to find libgmp.a if we need it ...
checking for main in -lgmp... no
libgmp not found. exiting...
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rsprng'
** Removing '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/rsprng'

The downloaded packages are in
        /private/tmp/RtmpmMmU4y/downloaded_packages
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Warning message:
In install.packages("rsprng", configure.args = "LD_FLAGS=\"-lgmp\" 
--with-sprng=/Users/theussl/lib/sprng",  :
  installation of package 'rsprng' had non-zero exit status

But this is the point where my knowledge ends. I don't know if the GMP 
library is somewhere available in binary form. In the worst case you 
have to compile it yourself.

Best,
Stefan
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> David
>
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Stefan Theussl wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> it seems to me that your unpacked sprng library and header files are 
>> not in a standard path. If so, you can install rsprng directly from R 
>> using
>> install.packages("rsprng", configure.args = 
>> "--with-sprng=/path/to/your/unpacked/sprng")
>>
>> Best,
>> Stefan
>>
>> David Marra wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I need help installing sprng libraries to enable use of rspring and  
>>> Rmpi packages. The machine is a Mac Pro 8 core machine running OS X  
>>> 10.5.5 Leopard and 64-bit R.
>>>
>>> So far, I have downloaded a SPRNG binary file, sprng-2.0a-i386- 
>>> darwin.tar.bz2, from Na Li's 
>>> website:http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~nali/SoftwareListing.html .
>>>
>>> In Terminal I did two commands:
>>> > bunzip2 spr*
>>> > tar -xvf spr*
>>> which produced the following output:
>>> include/sprng.h
>>> include/sprng_f.h
>>> include/interface.h
>>> lib/libsprng.a
>>>
>>> In the R 64-bit GUI I attempted an installation or rsprng from CRAN  
>>> sources which resulted in failure (full output below), namely:
>>> Cannot find sprng 2.0 header file.
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong and how can I install these libraries?
>>> (Terminal code much appreciated!)
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> David
>>>
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