From emammendes at gmail.com  Fri Jul 25 20:55:09 2014
From: emammendes at gmail.com (Eduardo M. A. M.Mendes)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:55:09 -0300
Subject: [Rd] [R-SIG-Mac]  R-3.1.1 - R CMD INSTALL problem
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Many thanks.

It worked just fine.

Ed


On Jul 25, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Roger Koenker <rkoenker at illinois.edu> wrote:

> FWIW when I installed R-devel  a week or so ago, I had to also install gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2 from 
> 
> http://r.research.att.com/libs/
> 
> well "had to"  is perhaps too strong, but I was seeing complaints about not running 4.8 and they went away
> after this install.
> 
> Roger
> 
> url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
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> 
> On Jul 25, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
>> Eduardo,
>> 
>> On Jul 24, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Eduardo M. A. M.Mendes <emammendes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello
>>> 
>>> I have recently upgraded R to the newest version.  Unfortunately my old (fortran and C) R-package cannot be installed anymore (was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it). 
>>> 
>>> I have tried R CMD INSTALL package_name but I noticed that R-3.1.1-binary-mac requests gcc-4.8.2 and specific locations for the libraries (gcc and gfortran).  
>> 
>> No, it doesn't. You must be using some other binary that the official CRAN one (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx )
>> Our binaries only use standard Apple compilers (from Xcode - in recent OS X versions you can use xcode-select --install on the command line to install) plus a GNU Fortran that you can download from CRAN.
>> 
>> 
>>> Can someone point me to the documentation on how to install  gcc as R requires, please?
>>> 
>>> Please note that I have used "brew install gcc" on another mac and soft linked all the necessary libraries so that gcc-4.9.1 can be used as 4.8 (as R requires). However I would like a clean installation.
>>> 
>> 
>> I you use brew, then you're on your own and you should refer to their support. Our builds do not require brew (or any other 3rd party build system).
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>> 
>> PS: Please note that R-SIG-Mac is the proper mailing list for Mac-specific questions.
>> 
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[Rd] [R-SIG-Mac] R-3.1.1 - R CMD INSTALL problem
Eduardo M. A. M.Mendes