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

[Tim Carnus]

Hi,

Just to note that I have had no issues compiling lme4 from source on
three separate macs (imac and emac running tiger and power book running
snow leopard). I did have to install xcode on all 3.

Best regards,

Tim

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 13:31 -0400, Daniel Ezra Johnson 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.
> 
> 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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