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In install.packages(), C compiler cannot create executables

1 message · Naresh Gurbuxani

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Naresh Gurbuxani
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Hello,

On my Mac, everything is installed using brew. ?I am not able to install some R packages which look for C compiler. ?Below is an example session on the terminal. ?

I will be thankful for any suggestions. ?If this question does not belong to this group, can you suggest where to look?

Naresh
Installing package into ?/usr/local/lib/R/3.6/site-library?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/stringi_1.4.3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 7290890 bytes (7.0 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 7.0 MB

* installing *source* package ?stringi? ...
** package ?stringi? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
checking for R_HOME... /usr/local/Cellar/r/3.6.1/lib/R
checking for R... /usr/local/Cellar/r/3.6.1/lib/R/bin/R
checking for endianness... little
checking for R >= 3.1.0 for C++11 use... yes
checking for R < 3.4.0 for CXX1X flag use... no
checking for cat... /bin/cat
checking for local ICUDT_DIR... icu61/data
checking for gcc... /usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/private/var/folders/nv/778l86d50jx2_wlzdw6m16l40000gn/T/Rtmp3KDSQ5/R.INSTALL87262e900de6/stringi':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
ERROR: configuration failed for package ?stringi?
* removing ?/usr/local/lib/R/3.6/site-library/stringi?

The downloaded source packages are in
	?/private/var/folders/nv/778l86d50jx2_wlzdw6m16l40000gn/T/Rtmp3hnR8I/downloaded_packages?
Warning message:
In install.packages("stringi", repos = "https://cran.r-project.org") :
? installation of package ?stringi? had non-zero exit status
$platform
[1] "x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0"

$arch
[1] "x86_64"

$os
[1] "darwin17.7.0"

$system
[1] "x86_64, darwin17.7.0"

$status
[1] ""

$major
[1] "3"

$minor
[1] "6.1"

$year
[1] "2019"

$month
[1] "07"

$day
[1] "05"

$`svn rev`
[1] "76782"

$language
[1] "R"

$version.string
[1] "R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)"

$nickname
[1] "Action of the Toes"
?? ? ? jpeg ? ? ? ? png? ? ? ? tiff ? ? ? tcltk ? ? ? ? X11? ? ? ? aqua?
?? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE?
?? http/ftp ? ? sockets? ? ? libxml? ? ? ? fifo? ? ? cledit ? ? ? iconv?
?? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE?
? ? ? ? NLS ? ? profmem ? ? ? cairo ? ? ? ? ICU long.double ? ? libcurl?
?? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE? ? ? ? TRUE?
Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.10.44.4)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin
/usr/bin/gcc
Your system is ready to brew.