arules installation

I sent the following and got the following reply to the R-Help, and then was told I should have sent it here.

On 07.12.2011 10:54, Thomas Chesney wrote:

 I'm using R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) on Mac OS X and I get the following error message with library(arules):

Loading required package: Matrix
Loading required package: lattice

Attaching package: 'Matrix'

The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base':

    det

Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
  unable to load shared object '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/arules/libs/i386/arules.so':
  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/arules/libs/i386/arules.so, 6): Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/lib/libR.dylib
  Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/arules/libs/i386/arules.so
  Reason: image not found
In addition: Warning message:
package 'arules' was built under R version 2.14.0
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'arules'

Install an arules binary that was built for your version of R (reather 
than a later one) or install from sources.

Uwe Ligges

The arules CRAN page says: Depends:   R (? 2.11.0), stats, methods, Matrix (? 0.999375-38), all of which I have - anyone know what the problem is? I'm really relunctant to update R as its Package Installer is blocked somehow by our Firewall and updating all the packages I use is a major hassle.

Thank you (as always!)

Thomas

PS on a related note, are the package installer port settings available somewhere and I'll send them to IT, ask them to unblock it?

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I tried installing from source as Prof Ligges suggested (as explained here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1474081/how-do-i-install-an-r-package-from-source) but got the following error:

install.packages("/Users/thomas/Documents/arules_1.0-7.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
* installing *source* package ?arules? ...
** libs
*** arch - i386
sh: make: command not found
ERROR: compilation failed for package ?arules?
* removing ?/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/arules?
Warning message:
In install.packages("/Users/thomas/Documents/arules_1.0-7.tar.gz",  :
 installation of package '/Users/thomas/Documents/arules_1.0-7.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status

Why would installing from source make any difference? Prof Ripley suggested I use arules for R.13.0, which I would if I could find it.

Has anyone got any advice?

Thank you,

Thomas
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