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Help with "error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH"

4 messages · Hari Easwaran, R. Michael Weylandt

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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:
1 day later
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Hmmmm....strange....if possible, this might be solvable by simply
updating to the release version R 2.14. If it's at all possible, I'd
start there.

Can you find the object it's unhappy about? On my machine, I do the following

1) Open Finder
2) Macintosh HD -> Library -> Frameworks -> R.framework -> Versions ->
2.13 -> Resources -> library -> RCurl -> libs -> x86_64 -> RCurl.so

Going the other way, are you sure you have Curl on your system? I'm
pretty sure it's standard on all Macs but you never know...follow some
of the instructions given here: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/FAQ.html
 You should be able to type curl-config in the terminal and get a
meaningful response if it is.

Did you change something on the OS level recently? I don't really know
why this would have all fallen apart, I just re-reinstalled RCurl on R
2.13.2 OSX 10.5.8 with no problem at all.

Michael
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Hari Easwaran <hariharan.pe at gmail.com> wrote: