> On Jun 20, 2016, at 9:19 AM, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com> > wrote: > > "R CMD check sos" with R 3.3.0 under Mac OS X 10.11.5 ends as follows: > > > >* checking package dependencies ... ERROR > >Package suggested but not available: ‘RODBC’ > > > >The suggested packages are required for a complete check. > >Checking can be attempted without them by setting the environment > >variable _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ to a false value. > > > Unfortunately, "install.packages('RODBC')" says it's only available in > source form. When I attempt to install from sources, it fails as follows: > > > >checking for sqlext.h... no > >configure: error: "ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not found" > >ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RODBC’ > >* removing > >‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library/RODBC’ > >Warning in install.packages : > > installation of package ‘RODBC’ had non-zero exit status > > > The CRAN checks for RODBC also failed for the same reason > (https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_RODBC.html). > > > > I'm not sure how to set "the environment variable > _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ to a false value" on my Mac, and I'd rather not do > it permanently. I tried various versions of "R CMD check > _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=FALSE sos_1.3-9.tar.gz" and "R CMD check > _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=0 sos_1.3-9.tar.gz", none of which worked. Somewhere > I found a suggestion to try, "R CMD check --as-cran sos_1.3-9.tar.gz". That > also failed for me. > > > Suggestions? > Thanks, > Spencer Graves
Spencer, The RODBC related error is a common issue and is covered in the vignette for the RODBC package in Appendix A "Installation": https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RODBC/vignettes/RODBC.pdf You are missing the two iODBC header files that are required to compile the RODBC package from source code. When I install RODBC on my Mac running 10.11.5 (El Capitan), I use: install.packages("RODBC", type = "source", configure.args = "--with-odbc-include=/Users/marcschwartz/R.Files/SourceAndBinaries/OSX-Tools/iODBC/libiodbc-3.52.10/include/") where I have placed the extracted iODBC source tarball in: /Users/marcschwartz/R.Files/SourceAndBinaries/OSX-Tools/iODBC The: configure.args = "--with-odbc-include=..." part of the function call points to where the header files are located after extraction from the tarball as per the vignette. The iODBC source tarball can be downloaded from: http://www.iodbc.org/dataspace/iodbc/wiki/iODBC/Downloads If you want to temporarily set the OS X environment variable, you can open an OS X Terminal and in the console, use: export _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=FALSE You can then check to see if it is set by using: env in the Terminal and/or with the following in an R console run from within that same Terminal session: > Sys.getenv("_R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_") [1] "FALSE" Once you close that Terminal session, that modified environment is lost. Also, at least the RODBC part of the issue should have been posted to R-SIG-DB (https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-db), since it is DB interface specific. Most queries about RODBC are there in the archives, including those covering the missing headers. The part that covers issues vis-a-vis checking your own package should go to R-Package-Devel: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel rather than R-Devel. Regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel