[R-SIG-Mac] Compiling Source packages in Mac OS 10.5.8

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11-07-18 11:02 AM, Oscar A. Moreno wrote:
> Dear R-SIG-Macers,
>
> I am a very newbie for compilation of packages.  I usually rely on
> binaries in CRAN.  I need to compile a package under Mac OS 10.5.8.
> My questions are: a) Where do I put the .tar.gz file to compile and b)
> What are the exact command line instructions from the R.app GUI? I
> have RTM and I am lost as to what to do.

Put the .tar.gz file anywhere where R can see it and read it.  For 
example, after starting R.app if you run getwd() you'll probably see 
something like

/Users/<yourname>

Putting the tar.gz in that directory is simplest.  Then

install.packages("<path to the .tar.gz>", type="source", repos=NULL)

will attempt to install it.

If it's a simple package, that should just work; if it has compiled C or 
Fortran code, you may need to install some compilers to get it to work. 
  See the links from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ for how to 
get those for your particular version of OS X.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> Particulars of my system:
>
> Mac PowerPC with 1.8 GHz Processor and 1.5 GB Memory
> XCode 3.1.4
> GNU Fortran 4.2.3
> Tcl/TK latest.
>
> Output from sessionInfo()
>
> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
> Platform: powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0/ppc (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Oscar A. Moreno
> oscar.moreno at att.net
>
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