[R-SIG-Mac] Problems installing packages on Lion

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 9, 2012, at 6:42 PM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:

> Following on what David said,
>
> Are you equipped to build the package locally? That is, do you have
> gcc and g++ installed?
>
> I'm almost certain that a local build (or an upgrade to 2.14 or 2.15
> in just over two weeks time) will be the easiest way to fix things.

I'm not sure why you say that. He seems to have a fairly standard / 
R.framework/ location for his /Resources/ and the fact that he still  
posting in HTML suggests he is not likely to have compiled his R from  
source.  A few years ago I would often solve problems by building from  
source, but in recent years when there is a binary package available,  
it generally installs without problems.

(I do see that there is a ../bin/../2.13/  node in the CRAN mirror at  
ku, which is not typical, so perhaps we are both wrong here. Now that  
I check, both the Berkeley and the CMU CRAN mirrors seem to keep their  
Mac binaries a lot longer than is required, so KU is just following US- 
local tradition. The CMU mirror has binaries back to R 2.8.)

Is your experience different?

-- 
David.
>
> Michael
>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Colstat <colstat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to install package MCMCPack.   I am using Lion.
>>
>> R confirms:
>> trying URL '
>> http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/cran/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.13/MCMCpack_1.2-1.tgz
>> '
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 8055525 bytes (7.7 Mb)
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 7.7 Mb
>>
>>
>> The downloaded packages are in
>> /var/folders/qf/q83rlh3x2qjcp75c3phtj81c0000gn/T//Rtmp4qzUW6/ 
>> downloaded_packages
>>
>>
>> seems like its downloaded, great!
>>
>>> require(MCMCpack)
>> Loading required package: MCMCpack
>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>  unable to load shared object
>> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/ 
>> MCMCpack/libs/x86_64/MCMCpack.so':
>>
>> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/ 
>> library/MCMCpack/libs/x86_64/MCMCpack.so,
>> 6): Library not loaded:
>> @rpath/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/lib/libR.dylib
>>  Referenced from:
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/ 
>> MCMCpack/libs/x86_64/MCMCpack.so
>>  Reason: image not found
>>
>> I have installed packages before, what is up with this one?
>>
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David Winsemius, MD
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