[R-SIG-Mac] ‘package ‘XML’ is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'’

Sat Sep 29 03:49:17 CEST 2012

On Sep 28, 2012, at 9:05 PM, John Maindonald wrote:

> Others may be able to give a more authoritative answer.  I doubt that 
> the method of installation was per se the difference.  I installed using 
> the Package installer, on April 6 2012.  The publication date 
> (2012-01-31 07:37:18) was the same as for the package that you 
> installed by first downloading.  You may have been unlucky that 
> something went wrong when you installed using the Package Installer.   
> Or, just possibly, a different file was temporarily on CRAN when you 
> used the package installer.
> 

It think it's actually more simple than that - my guess is that  Ricardo has (apparently inadvertently) installed the *source* package and not the binary which is why he got only one architecture. The Package Installer allows the user to do either depending what the user selects.

Cheers,
Simon

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> On 29/09/2012, at 10:13 AM, Ricardo.Julio.Rodriguez.Fernandez at sergas.es wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Thanks Brian, thanks everybody. I think I can easily understand the difficulties you are speaking about: R is a huge project running in a massive amount of different, and from time to time, fancy environments. I is by no means easy to keep all packages smoothly running in all and every installation around the World! For me, maintaining CRAN is a big responsibility and of extreme difficulty!
>> 
>> But I'm not able to understand yet what is the difference between using the R Package Installer (using CRAN repository as package repository), running in this case R Mac OS X 10.5.8  with this R installation...
>> 
>> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) -- "Roasted Marshmallows"
>> Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>> 
>> And downloading XML_3.9-4.tgz from http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XML/index.html and installing it by submitting sudo R CMD INSTALL XML_3.93-0.tgz.
>> 
>> The process using R Package Installer (CRAN binaries as repositoy) doesn't lead to a functional XML packages and downloading and installing it does lead to running XML packages both in i386 and x86_64 architectures.
>> 
>> Sorry for asking once again, but, please, where am I lost with this issue?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org [r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley [ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
>>> Sent: 28 September 2012 09:21
>>> To: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
>>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] ‘package ‘XML’ is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'’
>>> 
>>> With a package such as XML available from multiple repositories, you
>>> have to be very precise what you are talking about.
>>> 
>>> On CRAN, there is a source package for version 3.9-4.  That can be
>>> compiled for multiple architectures on a Mac, and there are such
>>> binaries on CRAN.
>>> 
>>> It only works in a UTF-8 locale, and hence there has needed to be a
>>> modified version for Windows, on CRANextras.
>>> 
>>> However, the home for XML is www.omegahat.org.  There are two different
>>> versions there, and neither work on Linux.  (3.93-0 in the Omegahat
>>> repository and http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML/XML_3.94-0.tar.gz.)
>>> 
>>> The CRAN team have been trying for weeks to sort this out, but the XML
>>> maintainer is barely responsive.
>>> 
>>> With a CRAN build of R for MacOS, you get binary packages by default,
>>> either from the command-line or from R.app.   You get those of the
>>> achitecture(s) which were built: this is normally both ix64 and x64_86
>>> (and perhaps ppc) but for a few tens of packages the person in charge
>>> (for CRAN, Simon Urbanek) needs to set up exceptions.  As packages do
>>> change, sometimes the need to add an exception pops up unexpectedly.
>>> 
>> 
>> On 28/09/2012 07:05, Ricardo.Julio.Rodriguez.Fernandez at sergas.es wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: Simon Urbanek [simon.urbanek at r-project.org]
>>>> Sent: 28 September 2012 02:24
>>>> To: Rodriguez Fernandez, Ricardo Julio
>>>> Cc: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] ‘package ‘XML’ is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'’
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 27, 2012, at 6:25 PM, <Ricardo.Julio.Rodriguez.Fernandez at sergas.es> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm trying to confirm I understand how packages are installed and manage in R to be able to better interpret error/warning messages.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In a Mac OS X installation of R I get this error:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> require(XML)
>>>>> Loading required package: XML
>>>>> Failed with error:  ‘package ‘XML’ is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'’
>>>>> 
>>>>> But the graphical interface R Package Installer says that version 3.9-4 is installed.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> It is installed, but only for 32-bit and you are trying to load it in 64-bit R.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Please, where am I wrong?
>>>> 
>>>> Use 32-bit R or if you want to use XML in 64-bit R, you have to compile it for 64-bit. AFAICS XML currently doesn't
>>>> pass checks on any platform, so there are no binaries and you have to compile it from sources. If you want both 32-bit and 64-bit > you'll have to use --merge-multiarch INSTALL option or use the two-step process described in the Mac FAQ.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Simon
>>> 
>>> Following other replies to this thread this is what I get here after installing from the command line without switches the XML binary available at CRAN...
>>> 
>>> Package: XML
>>> Version: 3.9-4
>>> ReleaseDate: 2012/01/30
>>> ...
>>> Repository: CRAN
>>> Date/Publication: 2012-01-31 07:37:18
>>> Built: R 2.15.0; universal-apple-darwin9.8.0; 2012-03-31 00:12:17 UTC; unix
>>> Archs: i386, ppc, x86_64
>>> 
>>> So, it seems that i386 and x86_64 are available by installing that binary. Please, what am I misunderstanding here?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>> 
>>> Ricardo
>>> 
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
>>>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>>>>> 
>>>>> locale:
>>>>> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
>>>>> 
>>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>> [1] graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  stats     methods   base
>>>>> 
>>>>> other attached packages:
>>>>> [1] foreign_0.8-50
>>>>> 
>>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>>> [1] tools_2.15.1
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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