Hari Easwaran
2011-Nov-15 19:12 UTC
[R] Help with "error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH"
Dear all, I am trying to install a package from bioconductor (biomaRt) for which I need the RCurl package. I get the following main error message when I try to install RCurl (and its dependencies). configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’ I searched for possible solutions and read in some online mailing list that I might have to install Xcode to install the gcc compiler. I am not sure if I should do this because I have installed RCurl in previous versions of R without any problems (on this same computer). I upgraded to the latest R (R version 2.14.0) and faced this problem. So I downgraded to R version 2.13.2 and still cannot install RCurl. I think my last successful installation of RCurl was with R version 2.11. Following is the complete error message and my R version details. I really appreciate any help or suggestions. Sincerely, Hari trying URL ' http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/src/contrib/XML_3.4-3.tar.gz' Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 906364 bytes (885 Kb) opened URL =================================================downloaded 885 Kb trying URL ' http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/src/contrib/RCurl_1.7-0.tar.gz' Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 813252 bytes (794 Kb) opened URL =================================================downloaded 794 Kb * installing *source* package ‘XML’ ... checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl.exe... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘XML’ * removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/XML’ * installing *source* package ‘RCurl’ ... checking for curl-config... /usr/bin/curl-config checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’ * removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl’ * restoring previous ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl’ The downloaded packages are in ‘/private/var/folders/a6/a60JdPfrHC0ZAizZWyNM-E+++TI/-Tmp-/RtmpVjBcvX/downloaded_packages’ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
R. Michael Weylandt
2011-Nov-16 04:33 UTC
[R] Help with "error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH"
Yes, you probably need some sort of C compiler, but why can't you just
download the appropriate binary directly? I just did on OS X 10.5.8
(admittedly for R 2.13.2, not 2.14) with no problems. The output of
sessionInfo()
install.packages("RCurl")
if you don't mind please.
Thanks,
Michael
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Hari Easwaran <hariharan.pe at gmail.com>
wrote:> Dear all,
> I am trying to install a package from bioconductor (biomaRt) for which I
> need the RCurl package. I get the following main error message when I try
> to install RCurl (and its dependencies).
>
> configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
> See `config.log' for more details.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ?RCurl?
>
> I searched for possible solutions and read in some online mailing list that
> I might have to install Xcode to install the gcc compiler. I am not sure if
> I should do this because I have installed RCurl in previous versions of R
> without any problems (on this same computer). I upgraded to the latest R (R
> version 2.14.0) and faced this problem. So I downgraded to R version 2.13.2
> and still cannot install RCurl. I think my last successful installation of
> RCurl was with R version 2.11.
>
> Following is the complete error message and my R version details.
> I really appreciate any help or suggestions.
>
> Sincerely,
> Hari
>
> trying URL '
> http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/src/contrib/XML_3.4-3.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 906364 bytes (885
Kb)
> opened URL
> =================================================> downloaded 885 Kb
>
> trying URL '
> http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/src/contrib/RCurl_1.7-0.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 813252 bytes (794
Kb)
> opened URL
> =================================================> downloaded 794 Kb
>
> * installing *source* package ?XML? ...
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cl.exe... no
> configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
> See `config.log' for more details.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ?XML?
> * removing
> ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/XML?
> * installing *source* package ?RCurl? ...
> checking for curl-config... /usr/bin/curl-config
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cl... no
> configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
> See `config.log' for more details.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ?RCurl?
> * removing
> ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl?
> * restoring previous
> ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl?
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>
?/private/var/folders/a6/a60JdPfrHC0ZAizZWyNM-E+++TI/-Tmp-/RtmpVjBcvX/downloaded_packages?
>
> ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
>
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