[R-SIG-Mac] checking whether the C compiler works... no

[Naresh Gurbuxani]

When trying to install library reshape2, I get below messages.  But I do have some other packages which depend upon C compiler (e.g., Rcpp).  How can this problem be fixed?

Thanks,
Naresh

Messages when trying to install reshape2:
> install.packages("reshape2", repos = "https://cran.r-project.org")
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/4.1/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘stringi’, ‘stringr’

trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/stringi_1.7.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 7599762 bytes (7.2 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 7.2 MB

trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/stringr_1.4.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 135777 bytes (132 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 132 KB

trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/reshape2_1.4.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 37307 bytes (36 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 36 KB

* installing *source* package ‘stringi’ ...
** package ‘stringi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
checking for R_HOME... /usr/local/Cellar/r/4.1.1/lib/R
checking for R... /usr/local/Cellar/r/4.1.1/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... icu69/data
checking for gcc... /usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/private/var/folders/97/5377j5_d207fshvjz_pz7szw0000gn/T/RtmpCOKBRx/R.INSTALL64822d9c75a/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/4.1/site-library/stringi’
ERROR: dependency ‘stringi’ is not available for package ‘stringr’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/4.1/site-library/stringr’
ERROR: dependency ‘stringr’ is not available for package ‘reshape2’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/4.1/site-library/reshape2’

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/private/var/folders/97/5377j5_d207fshvjz_pz7szw0000gn/T/RtmpDOExfD/downloaded_packages’
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages("reshape2", repos = "https://cran.r-project.org") :
  installation of package ‘stringi’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("reshape2", repos = "https://cran.r-project.org") :
  installation of package ‘stringr’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages("reshape2", repos = "https://cran.r-project.org") :
  installation of package ‘reshape2’ had non-zero exit status

My session info:
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin20.5.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Big Sur 11.5.2

Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /usr/local/Cellar/openblas/0.3.17/lib/libopenblasp-r0.3.17.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.1.1 tools_4.1.1