R help - Apr 2005 - install.packages and MacOS 10.3.8

Dear Listers,

I am trying to install packages via install.packages() from MacOS 
10.3.8. Installing work fine when run from the menu, but the following 
command (useful for setting up each computer of the student computer 
room)  leads nowhere for some reasons:
>
pack<-c("ade4","adehabitat","geoR","gstat","KernSmooth","lattice","leaps")
> install.packages(pack,dependencies=T)
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 51500 bytes
opened URL
=================================================downloaded 50Kb

also installing the dependencies 'SparseM', 'gee',
'waveslim', 'splancs', 'maptools',
'spdep', 'pixmap', 'ape', 'tripack'

trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/SparseM_0.60.tar.gz'
Content type `application/x-tar' length 1064262 bytes
opened URL
=================================================downloaded 1039Kb

trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/gee_4.13-10.tar.gz'
Content type `application/x-tar' length 49586 bytes
opened URL
=================================================downloaded 48Kb

trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/waveslim_1.4.tar.gz'
Content type `application/x-tar' length 358305 bytes
opened URL
=================================================
(etc....)

* Installing *source* package 'SparseM' ...
** libs
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 1: make: command not 
found
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'SparseM'
* Installing *source* package 'gee' ...
** libs
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 1: make: command not 
found
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'gee'

etc...


Can anybody tell me what goes wrong with this command (which usually 
work without any problem with R 2.0.1 and Windows XP).

Thanks in advance,

Patrick

Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
> Dear Listers,
> 
> I am trying to install packages via install.packages() from MacOS 
> 10.3.8. Installing work fine when run from the menu, but the following 
> command (useful for setting up each computer of the student computer 
> room)  leads nowhere for some reasons:
> 
>>
pack<-c("ade4","adehabitat","geoR","gstat","KernSmooth","lattice","leaps")
>>
>> install.packages(pack,dependencies=T)
> 
> 
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 51500 bytes
> opened URL
> =================================================> downloaded 50Kb
> 
> also installing the dependencies 'SparseM', 'gee',
'waveslim',
> 'splancs', 'maptools', 'spdep', 'pixmap',
'ape', 'tripack'
> 
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/SparseM_0.60.tar.gz'

[SNIP]

> 
> * Installing *source* package 'SparseM' ...
> ** libs
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 1: make: 
> command not found
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'SparseM'
> * Installing *source* package 'gee' ...
> ** libs
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 1: make: 
> command not found
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'gee'
> 
> etc...
> 
> 
> Can anybody tell me what goes wrong with this command (which usually 
> work without any problem with R 2.0.1 and Windows XP).

So at least "make" and probably much more is missing on your machines 
(or not in your path or whatever). You might want to try 
install.binaries() instead (which is similar to install.packages() on 
Windows, since it installs binary packages rather than trying to compile 
and install source packages) - or set up your machines with the required 
set of tools.

Uwe Ligges



> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Patrick
> 
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