JJB, I installed R using instructions given here.
https://github.com/sethrfore/homebrew-r-srf It seems that installing R using brew cask will not provide all capabilities. In any case, I want to use R with Emacs. I will try to reinstall and see if the problem goes away. Thanks, Naresh From: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Balamuta, James Joseph <balam...@illinois.edu> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2019 6:34 PM To: r-sig-mac@r-project.org <r-sig-mac@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] In install.packages(), C compiler cannot create executables Greetings and Salutations Naresh Gurbuxani, Don't use homebrew to install R. If you must use homebrew, install R via the brew cask project to obtain the CRAN binary vs. the homebrew compiled variant. Sincerely, JJB On 7/28/19, 5:28 PM, "R-SIG-Mac on behalf of Naresh Gurbuxani" <r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of naresh_gurbux...@hotmail.com> wrote: Hello, On my Mac, everything is installed using brew. I am not able to install some R packages which look for C compiler. Below is an example session on the terminal. I will be thankful for any suggestions. If this question does not belong to this group, can you suggest where to look? Naresh > install.packages('stringi', repos='https://cran.r-project.org') Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/3.6/site-library’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/stringi_1.4.3.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 7290890 bytes (7.0 MB) ================================================== downloaded 7.0 MB * installing *source* package ‘stringi’ ... ** package ‘stringi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** using staged installation checking for R_HOME... /usr/local/Cellar/r/3.6.1/lib/R checking for R... /usr/local/Cellar/r/3.6.1/lib/R/bin/R checking for endianness... little checking for R >= 3.1.0 for C++11 use... yes checking for R < 3.4.0 for CXX1X flag use... no checking for cat... /bin/cat checking for local ICUDT_DIR... icu61/data checking for gcc... /usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/private/var/folders/nv/778l86d50jx2_wlzdw6m16l40000gn/T/Rtmp3KDSQ5/R.INSTALL87262e900de6/stringi': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘stringi’ * removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/3.6/site-library/stringi’ The downloaded source packages are in ‘/private/var/folders/nv/778l86d50jx2_wlzdw6m16l40000gn/T/Rtmp3hnR8I/downloaded_packages’ Warning message: In install.packages("stringi", repos = "https://cran.r-project.org") : installation of package ‘stringi’ had non-zero exit status > R.Version() $platform [1] "x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0" $arch [1] "x86_64" $os [1] "darwin17.7.0" $system [1] "x86_64, darwin17.7.0" $status [1] "" $major [1] "3" $minor [1] "6.1" $year [1] "2019" $month [1] "07" $day [1] "05" $`svn rev` [1] "76782" $language [1] "R" $version.string [1] "R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)" $nickname [1] "Action of the Toes" > capabilities() jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE http/ftp sockets libxml fifo cledit iconv TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE NLS profmem cairo ICU long.double libcurl TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE > system('gcc --version') Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1 Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.10.44.4) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0 Thread model: posix InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin > system('which gcc') /usr/bin/gcc > system('brew doctor') Your system is ready to brew. > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac