Problems installing packages on MacOS with R 2.00

Dear all,

I have a problem installing a package required by Hmisc on MacOS 10.3.5 with 
R 2.00.

g77   -fno-common  -g -O2 -c avas.f -o avas.o
g77   -fno-common  -g -O2 -c rlsmo.f -o rlsmo.o
gcc -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -L/usr/local/lib -o 
acepack.so ace.o avas.o rlsmo.o  -L/usr/local/lib 
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/3.4.2 
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/3.4.2/../../.. -lfrtbegin -lg2c 
-lSystem -lcc_dynamic -framework R
ld: warning -L: directory name 
(/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/3.4.2) does not exist
ld: warning -L: directory name 
(/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/3.4.2/../../..) does not exist
ld: can't locate file for: -lfrtbegin
make: *** [acepack.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'acepack'

I found on the Internet a fix for R 1.8 which suggests to delete the 
-lfrtbegin library from /Applications/StartR.app/RAqua.app/Contents/etc but 
this path does not exists anymore on R 2.00.

How could I solve the problem.

It is R 2.0.0!  Your problem is that you do not have g77 installed, or at
least, not the same version as was used to compile your version of R.
(Please do read the posting guide and tell us where you got R from -- I
suspect you did not compile it yourself.)

I think this should be in the MacOS X FAQ, but unfortunately the version
on CRAN linked from the sidebar and the main FAQ at

    http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html

is for R 1.9.1, not 2.0.0.  Did your installation come with a current
version?

However, a further problem is that many packages which use Fortran code
cannot be compiled for MacOS X as it does not have a shared Fortran
run-time library.  So I suspect that if you do install g77-3.4.2 you will
find that you cannot compile package acepack, and that is why no
pre-compiled version of the package is available.

Dear Prof. Ripley,

It is R 2.0.0!  Your problem is that you do not have g77 installed, or at
least, not the same version as was used to compile your version of R.
(Please do read the posting guide and tell us where you got R from -- I
suspect you did not compile it yourself.)

I took R from http://cran.at.r-project.org/. True, I did not compiled
it: it was the R 2.0.0 (lastest version) bin package. However, I have
g77 version 3.4 (October 2003) installed on MacOS.

I deleted both -lfrtbegin and -lg2c from FLIBS in

/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/etc/Makeconf
and now Hmisc compiles fine.
I could not find a directory
/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/
in my installation.

I think this should be in the MacOS X FAQ, but unfortunately the version
on CRAN linked from the sidebar and the main FAQ at

    http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html

is for R 1.9.1, not 2.0.0.  Did your installation come with a current
version?

However, a further problem is that many packages which use Fortran code
cannot be compiled for MacOS X as it does not have a shared Fortran
run-time library.  So I suspect that if you do install g77-3.4.2 you will
find that you cannot compile package acepack, and that is why no
pre-compiled version of the package is available.