Dear all, I am trying to install a package from bioconductor (biomaRt) for which I need the RCurl package. I get the following main error message when I try to install RCurl (and its dependencies).
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. ERROR: configuration failed for package RCurl I searched for possible solutions and read in some online mailing list that I might have to install Xcode to install the gcc compiler. I am not sure if I should do this because I have installed RCurl in previous versions of R without any problems (on this same computer). I upgraded to the latest R (R version 2.14.0) and faced this problem. So I downgraded to R version 2.13.2 and still cannot install RCurl. I think my last successful installation of RCurl was with R version 2.11. Following is the complete error message and my R version details. I really appreciate any help or suggestions. Sincerely, Hari trying URL ' http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/src/contrib/XML_3.4-3.tar.gz' Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 906364 bytes (885 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 885 Kb trying URL ' http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/src/contrib/RCurl_1.7-0.tar.gz' Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 813252 bytes (794 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 794 Kb * installing *source* package XML ... checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl.exe... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. ERROR: configuration failed for package XML * removing /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/XML * installing *source* package RCurl ... checking for curl-config... /usr/bin/curl-config checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. ERROR: configuration failed for package RCurl * removing /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl * restoring previous /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl The downloaded packages are in /private/var/folders/a6/a60JdPfrHC0ZAizZWyNM-E+++TI/-Tmp-/RtmpVjBcvX/downloaded_packages [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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