[R-SIG-Mac] [R] lme4 + R 2.11.0 + mac unavailable

[Ken Beath]

On Tue, July 27, 2010 11:07 pm, John Maindonald wrote:
> Binaries for lme4 are not for the time being available either on
> CRAN or on r-forge?
>

There was a discussion about this on R-Sig-ME. It fails one of the checks
on the machine used to build the mac packages. It may pass on machines
with a later version of MacOS, but there didn't seem to be a consensus of
whether failing the checks was a problem.

Ken



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> On 27/07/2010, at 9:57 PM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
>> Dear Peter,
>> note that I am CC'ing this reply to the "R - Mac" mailing list, on
>> which there are knowledgable people for helping you with some of the
>> Mac specific problems
>> (more inline below).
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 20:36, Peter Goff <peter.t.goff at vanderbilt.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> Martin,
>>>
>>> I saw your series of posts on this topic, but sadly I am still unable
>>> to
>>> install lme4.
>>>
>>> I am in the nascent stages of learning R and, at this point, I cannot
>>> even
>>> load the program "arm" that is key to my program of study (I'm working
>>> with
>>> Gelman & Hill's Data Analysis using Regression and
>>> Multilevel/Hierarchical
>>> Models to get acclimated to R).
>>>
>>> Here's my quandary thus far:
>>>
>>> (1) I download and install R for Macs (version 2.11.1)
>>> (2) I try to find lme4 through the "Package Installer" only to find
>>> that it
>>> does not exist.
>>> (3) I find your string of postings on the web and try to install using:
>>> install.packages("lme4", type = "source")
>>> and I get the following error message:
>>>
>>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- (I chose
>>> USA,
>>> MI)
>>
>> Ok, I assume that's close enough to Vanderbilt ..
>>
>>> trying URL 'http://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib/lme4_0.999375-34.tar.gz'
>>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1028012 bytes (1003 Kb)
>>> opened URL
>>> ==================================================
>>> downloaded 1003 Kb
>>>
>>> * installing *source* package ‘lme4’ ...
>>> ** libs
>>> *** arch - i386
>>> gcc -arch i386 -std=gnu99
>>> -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include
>>> -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include/i386
>>> -I/usr/local/include
>>> -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.11/Resources/library/Matrix/include"
>>> -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/stats/include"
>>> -fPIC
>>> -g -O2 -c init.c -o init.o
>>> /bin/sh: gcc: command not found
>>
>> See, that's a clue:  'gcc' is the GNU C compiler and that (and more)
>> are absolutely musts for installing many R packages from source.
>>
>> The readers of R-SIG-Mac will be able to give more exact details,
>> but in order to get a version of gcc (and other tools) working nicely
>> with your version of R,
>> you'll need to install (parts of) the "Xcode" development tools that
>> Apple provides to you (for free, but you need to "get them").
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Martin
>>
>>> make: *** [init.o] Error 127
>>> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lme4’
>>> * removing
>>> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.11/Resources/library/lme4’
>>>
>>> The downloaded packages are in
>>>
>>> ‘/private/var/folders/ty/tyL1SdtKGlObzhxQbBUTek+++TI/-Tmp-/Rtmpt4fli2/downloaded_packages’
>>> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
>>> Warning message:
>>> In install.packages("lme4", type = "source") :
>>> installation of package 'lme4' had non-zero exit status
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Days and hours later I am at a loss as to how I should proceed. Any
>>> advice
>>> would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> ~Peter
>>>
>>> Peter Trabert Goff
>>> PhD student
>>> Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations
>>> Vanderbilt University
>>
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