Message-ID: <555C7F74-B88C-4E8C-94D4-51EECF5E4DE2@r-project.org>
Date: 2007-02-24T17:08:29Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: make
In-Reply-To: <B40CE41E-AFD4-4D82-9D2D-61B6589810B7@sph.emory.edu>
On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:14 PM, John Carew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install an R package from the source. I get the
> following errors.
>
>>> R CMD INSTALL /Users/jcarew/Desktop/sspline_0.1-2.tar.gz
> * Installing *source* package 'sspline' ...
> ** libs
> ** arch - i386
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 1: make:
> command not found
> chmod:
>
> ...
>
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'sspline'
>
> Presumably, this means that I do not have make on my system. Does
> anyone know where I can obtain it? I'm running 0SX 10.4.8 on an
> intel core 2 duo processor with R 2.4.0.
>
You need Apple's Xcode tools - they are located on the installation DVD.
If you are using R from CRAN, make sure you have installed the full
version of R and not the mini version. (You may want to install full
version of R 2.4.1 after you installed Xcode ...).
Cheers,
Simon