[R-SIG-Mac] R-3.0.0: choice of gfortran compiler in install.packages()

[Andy Jacobson (NOAA Affiliate)]

Issue resolved.

I was unaware of the ~/.R/Makevars file, which indeed was specifying the wrong gfortran compiler.  To build the fields package correctly, I needed to specify the correct compiler and architecture in that file, as:

F77=/usr/local/bin/gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64

Interesting that the .R/Makevars would override Makevars specified as arguments to install.packages().  Is this correct behavior?

Thanks to Davor Cubranic and Professor Ripley for help on this matter.

Best,

Andy


On Thu 09 May 2013, at 24:40 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> If you are not using the recommended compiler with a CRAN binary build you should set some variables in ~/.R/Makevars: see http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#OS-X-packages .

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