[R-SIG-Mac] Rstan compilation hangs misterisouly

[Ken Beath]

Guessing here. Possibly schools.stan has a problem, that is what teh first error is suggesting. The remaining is a possible problem with .MakeVars which is no longer needed with R. I would also check that files aren’t being saved with a strange encoding.

Ken

> On 9 Nov 2020, at 7:25 am, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac using r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
> While it is possible you will get the help you seek here,  I think you would likely to get more help,  and more knowledgeable help, on this more specialized issue,  at the Stan Forum.  https://discourse.mc-stan.org.  I remember seeing in the summaries I get some issues with different combinations of versions of R,  Stan and compilers.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -Roy
> 
>> On Nov 8, 2020, at 12:16 PM, Goncalo Ferraz via R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac using r-project.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I’ve been struggling with an rstan problem for weeks. I installed R stan following instructions in https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/wiki/RStan-Getting-Started#how-to-use-rstan <https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/wiki/RStan-Getting-Started#how-to-use-rstan> to the letter, but when I try to compile any model R leaves me hanging indefinitely (I’ve waited up to 30 minutes with ridiculously short models). When I press esc R says:
>> 
>> Warning messages:
>> 1: In readLines(file, warn = TRUE) :
>> incomplete final line found on '/Users/gferraz/Documents/MAF/R/schools.stan'
>> 2: In system(paste(CXX, ARGS), ignore.stdout = TRUE, ignore.stderr = TRUE) :
>> system call failed: Result too large
>> 3: In system(paste(CXX, ARGS), ignore.stdout = TRUE, ignore.stderr = TRUE) :
>> error in running command
>> 
>> And then, R won’t quit. I can only close it by force quitting the software itself and some R process that is set in motion and appears in the Activity Monitor.
>> 
>> I have tried everything that was suggested in the stan forum, including deleting all the contents of /usr/local, removing xcode, R and re-installing everything again.
>> 
>> The only thing that I can think of now is to do a clean install of Mac OS on my machine and really start from scratch.
>> 
>> Anyone has a less radical recommendation?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Gonçalo
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