Hi all, I'm trying to load the quantreg package but keep running into problems no matter which method I have tried. Does anybody know what this error (below) means in plain language and what I might do to get this installed. I have not had problems downloading/installing/running packages in the past. thanks in advance, derek Begin R output: trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/quantreg_4.65.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 2366176 bytes (2.3 Mb) opened URL =================================================downloaded 2.3 Mb * installing *source* package ?quantreg? ... ** libs *** arch - i386 gfortran -arch i386 -fPIC -g -O2 -c akj.f -o akj.o make: gfortran: No such file or directory make: *** [akj.o] Error 1 ERROR: compilation failed for package ?quantreg? * removing ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.12/Resources/library/quantreg? The downloaded packages are in ?/private/var/folders/4m/4mHSx7JtHL88Cl-gi19+Zk+++TI/-Tmp-/RtmpApfBjX/downloaded_packages? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Problem-loading-quantreg-tp3482397p3482397.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Apr 28, 2011, at 6:15 PM, derekverley wrote:> Hi all, > > I'm trying to load the quantreg package but keep running into > problems no > matter which method I have tried. Does anybody know what this error > (below) > means in plain language and what I might do to get this installed. > I have > not had problems downloading/installing/running packages in the past.Perhaps you didn't install any from source that require a fortran compiler. That's what appears to be missing from your machine (of whatever unstated OS you may be running.) -- David.> > thanks in advance, > > derek > > Begin R output: > > trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/ > quantreg_4.65.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-tar' length 2366176 bytes (2.3 Mb) > opened URL > =================================================> downloaded 2.3 Mb > > * installing *source* package ?quantreg? ... > ** libs > *** arch - i386 > gfortran -arch i386 -fPIC -g -O2 -c akj.f -o akj.o > make: gfortran: No such file or directory > make: *** [akj.o] Error 1 > ERROR: compilation failed for package ?quantreg? > * removing > ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.12/Resources/library/ > quantreg? > > The downloaded packages are in > > ?/private/var/folders/4m/4mHSx7JtHL88Cl-gi19+Zk+++TI/-Tmp-/ > RtmpApfBjX/downloaded_packages? > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Problem-loading-quantreg-tp3482397p3482397.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT
Hi Derek, I infer from the output that you're using a Mac. Generally including that kind of information is useful. Your computer lacks the requisite software to install the package. Make is saying that it can't find 'gfortran'. See this page for some more insight: http://r.research.att.com/tools/ I hope that this helps, Andrew On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:15:41PM -0700, derekverley wrote:> Hi all, > > I'm trying to load the quantreg package but keep running into problems no > matter which method I have tried. Does anybody know what this error (below) > means in plain language and what I might do to get this installed. I have > not had problems downloading/installing/running packages in the past. > > thanks in advance, > > derek > > Begin R output: > > trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/quantreg_4.65.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-tar' length 2366176 bytes (2.3 Mb) > opened URL > =================================================> downloaded 2.3 Mb > > * installing *source* package ???quantreg??? ... > ** libs > *** arch - i386 > gfortran -arch i386 -fPIC -g -O2 -c akj.f -o akj.o > make: gfortran: No such file or directory > make: *** [akj.o] Error 1 > ERROR: compilation failed for package ???quantreg??? > * removing > ???/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.12/Resources/library/quantreg??? > > The downloaded packages are in > > ???/private/var/folders/4m/4mHSx7JtHL88Cl-gi19+Zk+++TI/-Tmp-/RtmpApfBjX/downloaded_packages??? > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Problem-loading-quantreg-tp3482397p3482397.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Andrew Robinson Program Manager, ACERA Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-6410 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia (prefer email) http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.acera.unimelb.edu.au/ Forest Analytics with R (Springer, 2011) http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/FAwR/ Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation using R (CRC, 2009): http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/spuRs/
Actually, you are trying to *install* it - on a Mac (without telling us) - from source (why? people usually install binary packages there) - asking on the wrong list (R-sig-mac is appropriate) - with an incomplete R installation. Go to the CRAN Mac OS X pages and read what they say about installing Tcl/Tk and gfortran. And follow-ups to R-sig-mac please. On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, derekverley wrote:> Hi all, > > I'm trying to load the quantreg package but keep running into problems no > matter which method I have tried. Does anybody know what this error (below) > means in plain language and what I might do to get this installed. I have > not had problems downloading/installing/running packages in the past. > > thanks in advance, > > derek > > Begin R output: > > trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/quantreg_4.65.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-tar' length 2366176 bytes (2.3 Mb) > opened URL > =================================================> downloaded 2.3 Mb > > * installing *source* package ?quantreg? ... > ** libs > *** arch - i386 > gfortran -arch i386 -fPIC -g -O2 -c akj.f -o akj.o > make: gfortran: No such file or directory > make: *** [akj.o] Error 1 > ERROR: compilation failed for package ?quantreg? > * removing > ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.12/Resources/library/quantreg? > > The downloaded packages are in > > ?/private/var/folders/4m/4mHSx7JtHL88Cl-gi19+Zk+++TI/-Tmp-/RtmpApfBjX/downloaded_packages? > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Problem-loading-quantreg-tp3482397p3482397.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595