[R-sig-ME] Failure to load lme4 on Mac

[Douglas Bates]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Daniel Ezra Johnson
<danielezrajohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would appreciate it if the lme4 developers could state whether they
> plan to ensure that a Mac binary be available at any point in the
> future (as it does not seem like the problem is going to fix itself).
> As we see, it is not trivial to compile the package from source on the
> Mac OS.

Neither Martin nor I use Mac OS and we can't reproduce the problem on
other operating systems so we are kind of stuck.

Apparently it is a matter of one of the tests failing but without
access to a system that exhibits the failure I wouldn't know where to
start debugging.  Is some kind person using Mac OS were to download
and test the package and provide some details about the nature of the
failure we might be able to get started.

>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Christopher Desjardins
> <desja004 at umn.edu> wrote:
>> Did you see this from Daniel Myall ...
>>
>> .................
>> Hi Sean,
>>
>> On your Macbook do you have xcode installed? The error "sh: make: command
>> not found" indicates that this is not the case.
>>
>> The best place to get the latest xcode is http://connect.apple.com/ (The
>> main Apple site sends you back and forward between two pages for the xcode
>> download).
>> ................
>>
>> You need to install Xcode as you don't have the 'make' command.
>> http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/xcode.html. Unfortunately
>> Xcode is about 1 GB in size.
>>
>> Or you could wait for a binary build of lme4 for Mac.
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Sladjana <s-lukic at northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am having the same problem with loading lme4 on Mac.
>>> Can someone guid me through this, I would really appreciate?
>>> This is the error message I have been getting:
>>> * installing *source* package ‘lme4’ ...
>>> ** libs
>>> *** arch - i386
>>> sh: make: command not found
>>> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lme4’
>>> * removing
>>> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.11/Resources/library/lme4’
>>>
>>> The downloaded packages are in
>>>         ‘/private/var/folders/5i/5ineVodYG08abdx7gchSaE+++TI/-Tmp-
>>> /Rtmp4Czfel/downloaded_packages’
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Sladjana
>>>
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