Hmmm, in general you shouldn't need to build the binaries when you can just download them from CRAN. So I'd start by figuring out why that's not happening? Is your version of R out of date? Or has one of your reverse dependencies just been submitted to CRAN and thus doesn't have a binary yet?
Hadley On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM Ivan Krylov via R-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Prof. Revelle, > > В Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:29:15 +0000 > William R Revelle <[email protected]> пишет: > > > I am trying to submit the latest version of psych and need to check > > the 294 reverse dependencies. Normally, I just run revdep_check() > > to do this. > > > > But today I am being told I do not have the necessary tools to > > compile C > > Indeed, it seems that out of the strong recursive reverse dependencies > of the 'psych' package, 27 need compilation: > > tools::package_dependencies( > 'psych', reverse=TRUE, which = 'strong', recursive=TRUE > ) -> revd > tools::CRAN_package_db() -> db > db |> subset(Package %in% revd$psych) |> with( > Package[NeedsCompilation == 'yes'] > ) |> length() > # [1] 27 > > In order to run R CMD check for them, you'll need a working compiler. > Have you got Xcode installed? Is it possible for you to install Xcode > 14.3? If you don't get a better answer here and there's no answer at > <https://mac.r-project.org/>, try asking at [email protected]. > > -- > Best regards, > Ivan > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- http://hadley.nz [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
