[R-SIG-Mac] Updating some packages fails

[Simon Urbanek]

Manuel,

the archiving on CRAN has changed recently which broke the updates so recently the update for macOS packages have been suspended. Hence some most recent binaries is not available yet - it should be up by tomorrow.

Cheers,
Simon



> On Jan 11, 2018, at 12:26 PM, Manuel Spínola <mspinola10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear list members,
> 
> When trying updating some packages in MacOS High Sierra 10.13 (R 3.4.2)
> some packages, as "sf", fails:
> 
>> install.packages("sf")
> 
>  There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
>   binary source needs_compilation
> sf  0.5-5  0.6-0              TRUE
> 
> Do you want to install from sources the package which needs compilation?
> y/n: y
> 
> installing the source package ‘sf’
> 
> trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/sf_0.6-0.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 7399611 bytes (7.1 MB)
> ==================================================
> downloaded 7.1 MB
> 
> Warning in strptime(xx, f <- "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%OS", tz = tz) :
>  unknown timezone 'default/America/Costa_Rica'
> * installing *source* package ‘sf’ ...
> ** package ‘sf’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> configure: CC: clang
> configure: CXX: clang++
> checking for gdal-config... no
> no
> configure: error: gdal-config not found or not executable.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘sf’
> * removing
> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/sf’
> * restoring previous
> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/sf’
> Warning in install.packages :
>  installation of package ‘sf’ had non-zero exit status
> 
> The downloaded source packages are in
> ‘/private/var/folders/gf/vwlbzml90wv7cs2r4v00wg_m0000gn/T/RtmpbmvcCh/downloaded_packages’
>> 
> 
> 
> Any solution to this problem?
> 
> Manuel
> 
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