That sounds like a good suggestion except that openssl gets updated
periodically. Using homebrew, I just run
brew update && brew upgrade
regularly and all outdated packages are upgraded. I therefore try to use
brew in preference to other package installation methods where possible.
- Mick
On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 3:00?PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at
gmail.com>
wrote:
> If you're using the CRAN build of R, it's likely safer to follow
the
> instructions at https://mac.r-project.org/bin/. These will get you a
> build of openssl that is definitely compatible with the CRAN build of R.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> On 2025-12-21 3:39 p.m., Michael McQuaid wrote:
> > On macOS, I would suggest saying
> >
> > brew install openssl
> >
> > if you have homebrew installed. If not, I suggest you visit
homebrew's
> site
> > and install it.
> >
> > - Mick
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 2:06?PM Ivan Krylov via R-help <
> r-help at r-project.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Andre Luiz Tietbohl Ramos,
> >>
> >> ? Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:12:28 -0300
> >> Andre Luiz Tietbohl Ramos <andreltramos at gmail.com> ?????:
> >>
> >>>
> >>
>
dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.5-x86_64/Resources/library/curl/libs/curl.so,
> >>> 6): Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libssl.48.dylib
> >>
> >>> It seems the issue is on the /usr/lib/libssl.48.dylib that
doesn't
> >>> exist. In fact, there are no libssl* files. I appreciate
suggestions
> >>> to solve this problem.
> >>
> >> If you don't get a better answer here, consider asking at
> >> R-SIG-Mac at R-project.org, but don't just post the same
question a second
> >> time to the same list. (I'd like to help you, but I don't
have a Mac.)
> >>
> >> Over at <https://github.com/jeroen/curl/issues/427>, Jeroen
recommended
> >> installing 'curl' from source. Unfortunately, I can't
figure out what
> >> went wrong because the important part of the log is omitted. Try
that
> >> running install.packages('curl', type='source')
again and look at the
> >> messages related to 'curl' being installed.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best regards,
> >> Ivan
> >>
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