On Tue, July 27, 2010 11:07 pm, John Maindonald wrote: > Binaries for lme4 are not for the time being available either on > CRAN or on r-forge? >
There was a discussion about this on R-Sig-ME. It fails one of the checks on the machine used to build the mac packages. It may pass on machines with a later version of MacOS, but there didn't seem to be a consensus of whether failing the checks was a problem. Ken > 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 > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
