On Jul 29, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Martin Maechler wrote: >>>>>> "KB" == Ken Beath <k...@kjbeath.com.au> >>>>>> on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:19:34 -0000 (GMT) writes: > > KB> 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? >>> > > KB> There was a discussion about this on R-Sig-ME. It fails one of the > checks > KB> on the machine used to build the mac packages. It may pass on machines > KB> with a later version of MacOS, but there didn't seem to be a consensus > of > KB> whether failing the checks was a problem. > > The underlyign issue seems to remain unresolved. > My best guess is still to low-level bugs somewhere in the libraries > used. > > However, to help users, > I'm willing to *not* run those tests when *running* on the Mac. > > What does > Sys.info()[["sysname"]] > > return on the Mac, i.e., different versions of R running on the > Mac? > From grepping around I'd expect it give "Darwin" in all cases. > Is that true? >
... why don't you just compare the values with tolerance? That seems to make more sense that to disable the test altogether ... Cheers, Simon > Regards, > Martin Maechler > > > >>> 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 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac