[R-SIG-Mac] In install.packages(), C compiler cannot create executables

[Naresh Gurbuxani]

JJB,

I installed R using instructions given here.  

https://github.com/sethrfore/homebrew-r-srf

It seems that installing R using brew cask will not provide all capabilities.  In any case, I want to use R with Emacs.  

I will try to reinstall and see if the problem goes away.

Thanks,
Naresh






From: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Balamuta, James Joseph <balamut2 using illinois.edu>

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Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] In install.packages(), C compiler cannot create executables

 


Greetings and Salutations Naresh Gurbuxani,



Don't use homebrew to install R. If you must use homebrew, install R via the brew cask project to obtain the CRAN binary vs. the homebrew compiled variant.



Sincerely,



JJB



On 7/28/19, 5:28 PM, "R-SIG-Mac on behalf of Naresh Gurbuxani" <r-sig-mac-bounces using r-project.org on behalf of naresh_gurbuxani using hotmail.com> wrote:



    Hello,

    

    On my Mac, everything is installed using brew.  I am not able to install some R packages which look for C compiler.  Below is an example session on the terminal. 


    

    I will be thankful for any suggestions.  If this question does not belong to this group, can you suggest where to look?

    

    Naresh

    

    > install.packages('stringi', repos='https://cran.r-project.org')

    Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/3.6/site-library’

    (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

    trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/stringi_1.4.3.tar.gz'

    Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 7290890 bytes (7.0 MB)

    ==================================================

    downloaded 7.0 MB

    

    * installing *source* package ‘stringi’ ...

    ** package ‘stringi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

    ** using staged installation

    checking for R_HOME... /usr/local/Cellar/r/3.6.1/lib/R

    checking for R... /usr/local/Cellar/r/3.6.1/lib/R/bin/R

    checking for endianness... little

    checking for R >= 3.1.0 for C++11 use... yes

    checking for R < 3.4.0 for CXX1X flag use... no

    checking for cat... /bin/cat

    checking for local ICUDT_DIR... icu61/data

    checking for gcc... /usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp

    checking whether the C compiler works... no

    configure: error: in `/private/var/folders/nv/778l86d50jx2_wlzdw6m16l40000gn/T/Rtmp3KDSQ5/R.INSTALL87262e900de6/stringi':

    configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

    See `config.log' for more details

    ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘stringi’

    * removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/3.6/site-library/stringi’

    

    The downloaded source packages are in

         ‘/private/var/folders/nv/778l86d50jx2_wlzdw6m16l40000gn/T/Rtmp3hnR8I/downloaded_packages’

    Warning message:

    In install.packages("stringi", repos = "https://cran.r-project.org") :

      installation of package ‘stringi’ had non-zero exit status

    > R.Version()

    $platform

    [1] "x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0"

    

    $arch

    [1] "x86_64"

    

    $os

    [1] "darwin17.7.0"

    

    $system

    [1] "x86_64, darwin17.7.0"

    

    $status

    [1] ""

    

    $major

    [1] "3"

    

    $minor

    [1] "6.1"

    

    $year

    [1] "2019"

    

    $month

    [1] "07"

    

    $day

    [1] "05"

    

    $`svn rev`

    [1] "76782"

    

    $language

    [1] "R"

    

    $version.string

    [1] "R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)"

    

    $nickname

    [1] "Action of the Toes"

    

    > capabilities()

           jpeg         png        tiff       tcltk         X11        aqua 

           TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE 

       http/ftp     sockets      libxml        fifo      cledit       iconv 

           TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE 

            NLS     profmem       cairo         ICU long.double     libcurl 

           TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE 

    > system('gcc --version')

    Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1

    Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.10.44.4)

    Target: x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0

    Thread model: posix

    InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin

    > system('which gcc')

    /usr/bin/gcc

    > system('brew doctor')

    Your system is ready to brew.

    > 

    

    

    

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