I'm completely new to R and am trying to install an add-on package for one of our faculty members. I've had no problems with most of them, but am completely stuck trying to figure out why MCMCpack won't install.. any help is VERY much appreciated!!!
here's what I get when I try to install the package: * Installing *source* package 'MCMCpack' ... checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking ieeefp.h usability... no checking ieeefp.h presence... no checking for ieeefp.h... no checking for trunc... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating src/Makevars ** libs g++ -I/usr/local/stow/R-2.5.1/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/stow/R-2.5.1/lib/R/include -DSCYTHE_COMPILE_DIRECT -DSCYTHE_DEBUG=0 -DHAVE_TRUNC -I/usr/local/include -fpic -g -O2 -c lecuyer.cc -o lecuyer.o In file included from lecuyer.h:63, from lecuyer.cc:4: rng.h: In member function `scythe::Matrix<double, O, Concrete> scythe::rng<RNGTYPE>::rdirich(const scythe::Matrix<double, O, S>&)': rng.h:1314: syntax error before `;' token make: *** [lecuyer.o] Error 1 chmod: failed to get attributes of `/usr/local/stow/R-2.5.1/lib/R/library/MCMCpack/libs/*': No such file or directory ERROR: compilation failed for package 'MCMCpack' ** Removing '/usr/local/stow/R-2.5.1/lib/R/library/MCMCpack' The downloaded packages are in /tmp/Rtmp7oqLBm/downloaded_packages Warning message: installation of package 'MCMCpack' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages("MCMCpack", dependencies = TRUE) Any ideas? thanks again! John Henrikson Univ of Missouri-Columbia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.