[R-SIG-Mac] [R-sig-ME] lme4 under 64 bit (Snow Leopard)

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Tue Sep 15 15:14:45 CEST 2009


On Sep 15, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Will Morris wrote:

> When you run the 64bit version of R on OSX you need to compile all  
> packages
> from source as 64bit too, rather than simply downloading the  
> binaries which
> are all 32bit.

That is not my experience, although it was true in the past. Most of  
the CRAN binaries now work fine under 64 bit. I do not have Snow  
Leopard so this experience is only from MacOSX 10.5.8.

-- 
David Winsemius
>
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>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Michael Kubovy  
> <kubovy at virginia.edu> wrote:
>
>> Here is my session:
>>
>> R version 2.9.2 Patched (2009-09-05 r49613)
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>> [R.app GUI 1.28 (5399) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>>
>> Error in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib) :
>> shared library 'lme4' not found
>> [Workspace restored from /.RData]
>>
>> trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/
>> lme4_0.999375-31.tar.gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 839548 bytes (819 Kb)
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 819 Kb
>>
>> * Installing *source* package ‘lme4’ ...
>> ** libs
>> ** arch - i386
>> sh: make: command not found
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lme4’
>> * Removing
>> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/library/lme4’
>> * Restoring previous
>> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/library/lme4’
>>
>> The downloaded packages are in
>>
>> ‘/private/var/folders/TG/TG6nWu2pHYCI-BdWWiyMxU+++TI/-Tmp-/ 
>> Rtmprhnu6K/downloaded_packages’
>>> require(lme4)
>> Loading required package: lme4
>> Error: package 'lme4' is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In install.packages(c("lme4"), lib =
>> "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/",  :
>> installation of package 'lme4' had non-zero exit status
>>
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> Will Morris
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