Many thanks.

It worked just fine.

Ed


On Jul 25, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Roger Koenker <rkoen...@illinois.edu> wrote:

> FWIW when I installed R-devel  a week or so ago, I had to also install 
> gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2 from 
> 
> http://r.research.att.com/libs/
> 
> well "had to"  is perhaps too strong, but I was seeing complaints about not 
> running 4.8 and they went away
> after this install.
> 
> Roger
> 
> url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
> email    rkoen...@uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
> vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
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> 
> On Jul 25, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Eduardo,
>> 
>> On Jul 24, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Eduardo M. A. M.Mendes <emammen...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello
>>> 
>>> I have recently upgraded R to the newest version.  Unfortunately my old 
>>> (fortran and C) R-package cannot be installed anymore (was built before R 
>>> 3.0.0: please re-install it). 
>>> 
>>> I have tried R CMD INSTALL package_name but I noticed that 
>>> R-3.1.1-binary-mac requests gcc-4.8.2 and specific locations for the 
>>> libraries (gcc and gfortran).  
>> 
>> No, it doesn't. You must be using some other binary that the official CRAN 
>> one (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx )
>> Our binaries only use standard Apple compilers (from Xcode - in recent OS X 
>> versions you can use xcode-select --install on the command line to install) 
>> plus a GNU Fortran that you can download from CRAN.
>> 
>> 
>>> Can someone point me to the documentation on how to install  gcc as R 
>>> requires, please?
>>> 
>>> Please note that I have used "brew install gcc" on another mac and soft 
>>> linked all the necessary libraries so that gcc-4.9.1 can be used as 4.8 (as 
>>> R requires). However I would like a clean installation.
>>> 
>> 
>> I you use brew, then you're on your own and you should refer to their 
>> support. Our builds do not require brew (or any other 3rd party build 
>> system).
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>> 
>> PS: Please note that R-SIG-Mac is the proper mailing list for Mac-specific 
>> questions.
>> 
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