I could really use some advice about installing the RMySQL package under R
2.1.0 on Mac OS 10.4. I get the following message from R when I try:
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Configuration error:
Could not locate the library "libz" required by MySQL.
INSTRUCTIONS:
The "libz" library is required by the MySQL client library
in order to compress/uncompress connections between clients
and the MySQL engine.
Make sure you have "libz" installed properly and/or included
in your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Perhaps it is not in any of the
standard directories (e.g., /usr/lib/, /usr/local/lib)?
Aborting the installation of RMySQL.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RMySQL'
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The above message notwithstanding, files that appear in /usr/lib/ on my
machine include:
libz.1.1.3.dylib libz.1.dylib
libz.1.2.2.dylib libz.dylib
so libz appears to be there.
An earlier suggestion on this list about changing the environment
variables PKG_CPPFLAGS and PKG_LIBS had no effect, unfortunately.
I installed R 2.1.0 from a binary download. The required DBI package is
installed. A binary version of RMySQL is not available for Macs, so I am
trying to install RMySQL from sources. Before getting Mac OS 10.4, I
tried the same installation under 10.3 and 10.2 and had the same problem,
and also with R 2.0.1.
I know others have working installations of RMySQL on their Mac OS X
systems. Any tips for getting there would be most welcome. Thanks!
Tom Koepsell
