Binaries for lme4 are not for the time being available either on CRAN or on r-forge?
John Maindonald email: john.maindon...@anu.edu.au phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm On 27/07/2010, at 9:57 PM, Martin Maechler wrote: > Dear Peter, > note that I am CC'ing this reply to the "R - Mac" mailing list, on > which there are knowledgable people for helping you with some of the > Mac specific problems > (more inline below). > > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 20:36, Peter Goff <peter.t.g...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: >> Martin, >> >> I saw your series of posts on this topic, but sadly I am still unable to >> install lme4. >> >> I am in the nascent stages of learning R and, at this point, I cannot even >> load the program "arm" that is key to my program of study (I'm working with >> Gelman & Hill's Data Analysis using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical >> Models to get acclimated to R). >> >> Here's my quandary thus far: >> >> (1) I download and install R for Macs (version 2.11.1) >> (2) I try to find lme4 through the "Package Installer" only to find that it >> does not exist. >> (3) I find your string of postings on the web and try to install using: >> install.packages("lme4", type = "source") >> and I get the following error message: >> >> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- (I chose USA, >> MI) > > Ok, I assume that's close enough to Vanderbilt .. > >> trying URL 'http://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib/lme4_0.999375-34.tar.gz' >> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1028012 bytes (1003 Kb) >> opened URL >> ================================================== >> downloaded 1003 Kb >> >> * installing *source* package ‘lme4’ ... >> ** libs >> *** arch - i386 >> gcc -arch i386 -std=gnu99 >> -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include >> -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include/i386 >> -I/usr/local/include >> -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.11/Resources/library/Matrix/include" >> -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/stats/include" -fPIC >> -g -O2 -c init.c -o init.o >> /bin/sh: gcc: command not found > > See, that's a clue: 'gcc' is the GNU C compiler and that (and more) > are absolutely musts for installing many R packages from source. > > The readers of R-SIG-Mac will be able to give more exact details, > but in order to get a version of gcc (and other tools) working nicely > with your version of R, > you'll need to install (parts of) the "Xcode" development tools that > Apple provides to you (for free, but you need to "get them"). > > Best regards, > Martin > >> make: *** [init.o] Error 127 >> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lme4’ >> * removing >> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.11/Resources/library/lme4’ >> >> The downloaded packages are in >> >> ‘/private/var/folders/ty/tyL1SdtKGlObzhxQbBUTek+++TI/-Tmp-/Rtmpt4fli2/downloaded_packages’ >> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library' >> Warning message: >> In install.packages("lme4", type = "source") : >> installation of package 'lme4' had non-zero exit status >> >> >> >> Days and hours later I am at a loss as to how I should proceed. Any advice >> would be greatly appreciated! >> >> Thanks, >> ~Peter >> >> Peter Trabert Goff >> PhD student >> Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations >> Vanderbilt University > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
