R help - Nov 2004 - R package installation

Dear Marco,

I was given an excerpt with your problem about installing package on
a MAC, such as Hmisc.

I had the same problems and found a work around.

I have not had any trouble loading in source packages since, include
Hmisc and Design, acepack and vgam.

First, I downloaded and installed the g77 compiler.

I use a progam named FINK to find, download and intall g77 (so first I 
installed FINK
then from within FINK I downloaded/installed the g77 compiler.) Do a 
"Google" search
for FINK, it is easy to find and install.

After g77 was installed I had to make a symbolic link so R could find 
it:

ln -s \sw\bin\g77 \usr\bin\g77  (I think I had to make a link to my gcc 
compiler also)
\n -s \sw\bin\gcc \usr\bin\g77

It looks like you already have the g77 compiler from the message.  the 
next mesage you can also remedy by symbolic links.  Try

ln -s /sw/lib/gcc   /usr/local/lib/gcc
ln -s /sw/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.5.0   
\usr\local\lib\gcc\powerpc-apple-darwin6.8
ln -s /sw/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.5.0/3.4.1   
\usr\local\lib\gcc\powerpc-apple-darwin6.8\3.4.2

The first directory path in each of the above may be specific to your 
configuration for gcc.

But this did work for me, and if you find the correct location for gcc/ 
powerpc-apple-darwinX.Y.Z/U.V.W, you should have no trouble either.

Good luck.

Sincerely

Tim Johnson
Adjunct Asst. Professor
University of Michigan

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Timothy D. Johnson wrote:
> I was given an excerpt with your problem about installing package on
> a MAC, such as Hmisc.
>
> I had the same problems and found a work around.
>
> I have not had any trouble loading in source packages since, include
> Hmisc and Design, acepack and vgam.
>
> First, I downloaded and installed the g77 compiler.
>
> I use a progam named FINK to find, download and intall g77 (so first I
> installed FINK then from within FINK I downloaded/installed the
> g77 compiler.)
> [SNIP details]
Still seems like simply installing this from this link would be simpler;
FINK is unnecessary. Of course, this is already covered in the OS X FAQ
<http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RAqua-FAQ.html> although some
explanation could be added that a Fortran77 compiler might also be needed
for linking other packages.

<http://hpc.sf.net/g77v3.4-bin.tar.gz>

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Dear Prof. Johnson,

sorry for posting the reply so late.

I am already using FINK. But you were right, R was looking for g77 and
the gcc libraries under the MacOs distributions.

Rather than creating symbolic links I updated FLIBS in
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/etc/Makeconf
so that it searches in the right path
/sw/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0/

For g77 I made instead the link you suggest under /usr/bin/.

I removed and reinstalled the package and everything run fine, in spite
of my versions of libraries and compilers (g77 was already up-date from
FINK).


Thank you all for the help,


Marco


> Dear Marco,
>
> I was given an excerpt with your problem about installing package on
> a MAC, such as Hmisc.
>
> I had the same problems and found a work around.
>
> I have not had any trouble loading in source packages since, include
> Hmisc and Design, acepack and vgam.
>
> First, I downloaded and installed the g77 compiler.
>
> I use a progam named FINK to find, download and intall g77 (so first I
> installed FINK
> then from within FINK I downloaded/installed the g77 compiler.) Do a
> "Google" search
> for FINK, it is easy to find and install.
>
> After g77 was installed I had to make a symbolic link so R could find
> it:
>
> ln -s \sw\bin\g77 \usr\bin\g77  (I think I had to make a link to my gcc
> compiler also)
> \n -s \sw\bin\gcc \usr\bin\g77
>
> It looks like you already have the g77 compiler from the message.  the
> next mesage you can also remedy by symbolic links.  Try
>
> ln -s /sw/lib/gcc   /usr/local/lib/gcc
> ln -s /sw/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.5.0
> \usr\local\lib\gcc\powerpc-apple-darwin6.8
> ln -s /sw/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.5.0/3.4.1
> \usr\local\lib\gcc\powerpc-apple-darwin6.8\3.4.2
>
> The first directory path in each of the above may be specific to your
> configuration for gcc.
>
> But this did work for me, and if you find the correct location for gcc/
> powerpc-apple-darwinX.Y.Z/U.V.W, you should have no trouble either.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Tim Johnson
> Adjunct Asst. Professor
> University of Michigan


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