[R-SIG-Mac] Making package "frontier" available for Mac: debugging Fortran code

[Arne Henningsen]

Dear Don (and others)

Thanks a lot for your immediate and helpful response. In the future, I
will advice Mac users to install the "frontier" package with the
additional argument 'type = "source"'. If this problem only occurs on
the CRAN server, I will contact them to figure out the cause of the
problem. Does anybody have an idea why the error (segmentation fault)
occurs on one (or more) Mac computers (at least the Mac used by CRAN)
but not on other Mac computers or on MS-Windows and GNU-Linux machine?
Could this bu be caused or triggered by the compiler or some compiler
options?

Cheers,
Arne


On 3 December 2012 17:35, MacQueen, Don <macqueen1 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> Arne,
>
> I'm on a Mac. Although I'm still using R 15.2.1 on this machine, perhaps
> my results will be helpful.
> Briefly, no problem with frontier.
>
> I do have the "Additional tools necessary for building R for Mac OS X"
> installed (downloaded from the "R for Mac tools page").
>
> -Don
>
>
>
> The first thing I did was
>   install.packages('frontier',type='source')
> The package installed successfully, and I tried the first example in
> ?frontier; it ran. By which I mean there were no error or warning messages.
>
>
> I then downloaded the package source, unpacked it. In the directory where
> I unpacked it:
>
> frontier-pkg[41]% ls
> ./              ../             frontier/
>
>
> frontier-pkg[42]% R CMD build frontier > & build.log
>
> frontier-pkg[43]% R CMD check frontier > & check.log
>
>
> From check.log:
>
> * checking examples ...
> ** running examples for arch 'i386' ... OK
> ** running examples for arch 'x86_64' ... OK
>
>
>
> R CMD install seems to work. Then:
>
>> require(frontier)
> Loading required package: frontier
> Loading required package: plm
> Loading required package: bdsmatrix
>
> Attaching package: 'bdsmatrix'
>
> The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base':
>
>     backsolve
>
> Loading required package: nlme
> Loading required package: Formula
> Loading required package: MASS
> Loading required package: sandwich
> Loading required package: zoo
>
> Attaching package: 'zoo'
>
> The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base':
>
>     as.Date, as.Date.numeric
>
> Loading required package: micEcon
> Loading required package: miscTools
> Loading required package: lmtest
>
> And finally:
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
>  [1] frontier_0.997-12 lmtest_0.9-30     micEcon_0.6-10
> miscTools_0.6-12  plm_1.2-10        sandwich_2.2-9    zoo_1.7-7
>  [8] MASS_7.3-19       Formula_1.1-0     nlme_3.1-104      bdsmatrix_1.3
>   rmacq_1.1-9
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] grid_2.15.1    lattice_0.20-6 moments_0.13   tcltk_2.15.1
> tools_2.15.1
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Don MacQueen
>
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> 7000 East Ave., L-627
> Livermore, CA 94550
> 925-423-1062
>
>
>
>
>
> On 12/3/12 7:35 AM, "Arne Henningsen" <arne.henningsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Dear Mac users
>>
>>I am the maintainer of the R package "frontier." Some Mac users made
>>me aware of that this package is not available for their system [1],
>>because its Fortran code causes a segmentation fault when "R CMD
>>check" runs the example code. This error neither occurs on MS-Windows
>>nor on GNU-Linux systems. As I do not have access to a Mac system, I
>>cannot debug this error and I wonder if someone on this list could
>>help me to debug and fix this error. Thanks a lot in advance!
>>
>>[1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/frontier/index.html
>>
>>[2]
>>http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/frontier-00ch
>>eck.html
>>
>>Best wishes from Copenhagen,
>>Arne
>>
>>--
>>Arne Henningsen
>>http://www.arne-henningsen.name
>>
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Arne Henningsen
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