Compiling Source packages in Mac OS 10.5.8

On 11-07-18 11:02 AM, Oscar A. Moreno wrote:

Dear R-SIG-Macers,

I am a very newbie for compilation of packages.  I usually rely on
binaries in CRAN.  I need to compile a package under Mac OS 10.5.8.
My questions are: a) Where do I put the .tar.gz file to compile and  
b)
What are the exact command line instructions from the R.app GUI? I
have RTM and I am lost as to what to do.

Put the .tar.gz file anywhere where R can see it and read it.  For  
example, after starting R.app if you run getwd() you'll probably see  
something like

/Users/<yourname>

Putting the tar.gz in that directory is simplest.  Then

install.packages("<path to the .tar.gz>", type="source", repos=NULL)

will attempt to install it.

If it's a simple package, that should just work; if it has compiled  
C or Fortran code, you may need to install some compilers to get it  
to work.  See the links from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/  
for how to get those for your particular version of OS X.

Duncan Murdoch

Particulars of my system:

Mac PowerPC with 1.8 GHz Processor and 1.5 GB Memory
XCode 3.1.4
GNU Fortran 4.2.3
Tcl/TK latest.

Output from sessionInfo()

R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
Platform: powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0/ppc (32-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

Thanks in advance,
Oscar A. Moreno
oscar.moreno at att.net