Updating my X code was the secret. Thanks.
Bill > On Dec 13, 2025, at 17:13, William R Revelle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ivan and Hadley, et al. > > Historically, (that is to say in June) revdep_check flags those 27 as > failures (can not check) but doesn't stop working. Now, it just stops > working with that error message. > > My version of R is up to date (4.5.2) and I have installed the latest version > of Mac OS. > > I will try installing X-code. I did not want to cross post to the Mac-group > until i tried the developer group first. > > Thanks. > > Bill > > From: R-devel <[email protected]> on behalf of Hadley Wickham > <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2025 9:22 AM > To: Ivan Krylov <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Rd] help with revdepcheck > 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 Is your version of R out of date?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$psych) |> with( > > Package[NeedsCompilation == 'yes'] > > ) |> length() > > # [1] 27 > > > > In order to run R CMD check for them, you'll need a working compiler. > > Have you got Xcode installed? Is it possible for you to install Xcode > > 14.3? If you don't get a better answer here and there's no answer at > > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mac.r-project.org/__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!QmPWFRE70ORstrSQsQH62FBt6MbTmNQnFeWkrB3XVg7Qsp0wGi1et-wfliKHW7cpjkQiP-PAQi6s7BvgpR9280E$ > > >, try asking at [email protected]. > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > Ivan > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!QmPWFRE70ORstrSQsQH62FBt6MbTmNQnFeWkrB3XVg7Qsp0wGi1et-wfliKHW7cpjkQiP-PAQi6s7BvgN5JNdqY$ > > > > > -- > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://hadley.nz__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!QmPWFRE70ORstrSQsQH62FBt6MbTmNQnFeWkrB3XVg7Qsp0wGi1et-wfliKHW7cpjkQiP-PAQi6s7BvgCgStUgA$ > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!QmPWFRE70ORstrSQsQH62FBt6MbTmNQnFeWkrB3XVg7Qsp0wGi1et-wfliKHW7cpjkQiP-PAQi6s7BvgN5JNdqY$ William Revelle personality-project.org/revelle.html Board of Visitors Professor (Emeritus) Department of Psychology www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/ Northwestern University www.northwestern.edu/ Use R for psychology personality-project.org/r It is 89 seconds to midnight www.thebulletin.org ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
