Hi, Thank you so much for the help. After setting the environment variables I was able to install RMySQL. Thanks again.
>Xander On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 10:09, Don MacQueen wrote: > I have a working installation of RMySQL in Mac OS X (10.3.7). I have > libz in /usr/lib, as you do. > None of my personal installation notes mention doing anything special > for /usr/lib/libz*. > My R was built from a source distribution; it is not a binary > distribution. (version info below) > > The only extra step I do is to define environment variables > PKG_CPPFLAGS and PKG_LIBS, > like this: > > mysql.home <- '/usr/local/mysql' > Sys.putenv('PKG_CPPFLAGS'=paste('-I',file.path(mysql.home,'include'),sep='')) > Sys.putenv('PKG_LIBS'=paste('-L',file.path(mysql.home,'lib'),' > -lmysqlclient',sep='')) > install.packages('RMySQL') > > You could try adding /usr/lib to PKG_LIBS. > > -Don > > > > version > _ > platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.8.5 > arch powerpc > os darwin6.8.5 > system powerpc, darwin6.8.5 > status > major 2 > minor 0.1 > year 2004 > month 11 > day 15 > language R > > > RMySQL is 0.5-5 > > > At 9:10 AM -0600 2/9/05, Xander Meadow wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm still trying to get RMySQL installed on my Mac. When I try and > >install from R (version 2.0.1) I'm told that the library "libz" can't be > >located. It suggests checking in /usr/lib to see if I have the > >necessary libraries. However, if I check /usr/lib I find I have the > >following: > > > >libz.1.1.3.dylib* > >libz.1.dylib* > >libz.dylib@ > > > >Since I have the libraries that RMySQL needs to install I can't figure > >out why the installation is failing. Does anyone have any thoughts on > >how to get RMySQL installed on my Mac? Thanks so much. > > > >>Xander > > > >On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 13:52, Xander Meadow wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Thank you for responding. One thing I forgot to mention (although I'm > >> guessing you figured it out anyway) is that I'm running Mac OS X. > >> > >> I checked and I've got the file /usr/include/zlib.h installed on my > >> machine. Is this enough for R or does it need a more robust > >> installation of zlib? If this is enough, how do I let R know about the > >> zlib.h file. If it's not, where should I get the correct zlib from? > >> Thank you for any and all responses. > >> > >> -Xander > >> > >> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 13:43, Roger D. Peng wrote: > >> > R comes with it's own copy of zlib so even if it is compiled into R, > >> > there isn't necessarily a system-wide installation of the library. > >> > You may still need to install it. > >> > > >> > -roger > >> > > >> > Xander Meadow wrote: > >> > > Hi, > >> > > > >> > > I've got a Dual G5 running 10.3.7 and I'm trying to install RMySQL. > >> > > I've already got R up and running. When I try the command > >> > > > >> > > > >> > >>install.packages("RMySQL") > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > It downloads a few things and then produces the following error: > >> > > --------------------------- > >> > > Configuration error: > >> > > Could not locate the library "libz" required by MySQL. > >> > > > >> > > INSTRUCTIONS: > >> > > > >> > > The "libz" library is required by the MySQL client library > >> > > in order to compress/uncompress connections between clients > >> > > and the MySQL engine. > >> > > > >> > > Make sure you have "libz" installed properly and/or included > >> > > in your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Perhaps it is not in any of the > >> > > standard directories (e.g., /usr/lib/, /usr/local/lib)? > >> > > > >> > > Aborting the installation of RMySQL. > >> > > > >> > > ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RMySQL' > >> > > ---------------------------- > >> > > > >> > > However, if I check for libz I get: > >> > > > >> > > > >> > >>capabilities("libz") > >> > > > >> > > libz > >> > > TRUE > >> > > > >> > > I'm not sure what the problem is because R is telling me that it > >> doesn't > >> > > know where libz is, but then it's also telling me it does know where > >> > > libz is. > >> > > > >> > > Has anyone else seen this problem or know how I can get RMySQL > >> installed > >> > > on my machine? > >> > > > >> > > Just as an added note I know that install.packages works because > > > > > > >> > > > >> > >>install.packages("DBI") > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > worked without a problem. > >> > > > >> > > Thanks again. > >> > > > >> > > -Xander > >> > > > >> > > ______________________________________________ > >> > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > >> > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > >>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >> > > > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide! > >>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > >______________________________________________ > >R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html