[R-SIG-Mac] Sweave, LaTeX, and ... quartz?

Simon Urbanek simon.urbanek at r-project.org
Tue May 15 20:38:38 CEST 2007


On May 15, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:

> Hi Simon,
> Thank you kindly.
> I am using R 2.5.0 on a PowerPC with OS 10.4.9
>

I have posted CarbonEL for R 2.5.0, so it should now work even  
without type='source'.


> That failed (output below), and I am not sure where to go from here.
> Any input would be great.

Please make sure you have Xcode 2.4.1 installed. It appears as if  
you're missing the gcc compiler. In case you're running the old gcc  
3.3, try
sudo gcc_select 4.0
before installing CarbonEL.

Cheers,
Simon


> Hank
>
> > install.packages("CarbonEL",,"http://rforge.net/",type='source')
> trying URL 'http://rforge.net/src/contrib/CarbonEL_0.1-3.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-tar' length 2893 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 2893 bytes
>
> * Installing *source* package 'CarbonEL' ...
> ** libs
> ** arch - i386
> gcc-4.0 -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -no- 
> cpp-precomp -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include -I/ 
> Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include/i386  -msse3  - 
> D__NO_MATH_INLINES  -fPIC  -g -O2 -std=gnu99 -march=nocona -c ael.c  
> -o ael.o
> make: gcc-4.0: Command not found
> make: *** [ael.o] Error 127
> chmod: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/ 
> library/CarbonEL/libs/i386/*: No such file or directory
> ** arch - ppc
> gcc-4.0 -arch ppc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk - 
> std=gnu99 -no-cpp-precomp -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ 
> Resources/include -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/ 
> include/ppc  -I/usr/local/include    -fPIC  -g -O2 -c ael.c -o ael.o
> make: gcc-4.0: Command not found
> make: *** [ael.o] Error 127
> chmod: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/ 
> library/CarbonEL/libs/ppc/*: No such file or directory
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'CarbonEL'
> ** Removing '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/ 
> library/CarbonEL'
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> 	/private/tmp/Rtmp0zpsEt/downloaded_packages
> Warning message:
> installation of package 'CarbonEL' had non-zero exit status in:  
> install.packages("CarbonEL", , "http://rforge.net/", type = "source")
> >
>
> On May 15, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 15, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> I was wondering how others generate on-screen graphics and graphics
>>> files when they want to use Sweave to generate Latex documents.
>>>
>>> I am using Aquamacs
>>> ( GNU Emacs 22.0.97.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, Carbon Version
>>> 1.6.0)  of 2007-04-15 on rodrigues.inf.ed.ac.uk - Aquamacs
>>> Distribution 1.0rc3 )
>>>
>>> I have been using x11(), but I would prefer to use a quartz device,
>>> simply because the on-screen quality is much better, and I imagine
>>> there are other advantages as well?
>>>
>>> Is CarbonEL still recommended? An older hack seems unavailable.
>>>> install.packages("CarbonEL",,"http://rforge.net/")
>>> Warning message:
>>> package 'CarbonEL' is not available
>>>
>>
>> install.packages("CarbonEL",,"http://rforge.net/",type='source')
>>
>> should work regardless of the R version...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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