On Jul 14, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Andrea Foulkes wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed version 2.11.1 on my Mac OS X 10.5.2. When I try running R > from my xterm, I get the following error: > > Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'lme4' > Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData > > I am returned to the terminal prompt and can not run R. I can open this > version of R from the R console and tried installing the lme4 source package > (per D. Bates' suggestion on 6-July) but get the following error: > > trying URL 'http://cran.cict.fr/src/contrib/lme4_0.999375-34.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-tar' length 1028012 bytes (1003 Kb) > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 1003 Kb > > * installing *source* package ‘lme4’ ... > ** libs > *** arch - i386 > sh: make: command not found > ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘lme4’ > * removing > ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.11/Resources/library/lme4’ > > I do not need to use lme4 (though I would like to) but I do very much prefer > to work from my xterminal and apparently can not do without lme4. Any > suggestions appreciated! > > Andrea
You appear to have something in your default .RData file that directly or indirectly (a package dependency) requires the presence of lme4. You can try running: R --vanilla from the command line to see if this resolves the problem. >From memory, lme4 will not pass the required CRAN checks for OSX, which means >that you have to install it from source. Since you are getting an error >message about 'make' not being available, this indicates that you do not have >the required Apple XCode Tools installed on your system, along with other >required development tools. So your choice is to delete the offending .RData file, which will be /Users/YOUR.USER.NAME/.RData, or to install XCode Tools and the other required components to enable you to install lme4 from source code. If you choose the former, note that by default, files that begin with a '.' are hidden from the normal Finder views. You can modify that behavior or since you seem comfortable using xterm, using 'ls -a' will list the files in the current directory, including those that are otherwise hidden. If you choose the latter option, XCode Tools is available (after registering) from: http://developer.apple.com/technologies/xcode.html and the additional tools are available from: http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/ As a future reference, since this issue is specific to OSX, you would be better off posting to the R-sig-mac list: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ 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.
